The code snippet below will pick up a random image from the server and sends it to the browser. Try it out. PHP: <?php if($_GET['folder']){ $folder=$_GET['folder']; }else{ $folder='/images/'; } //path to image dir $path = $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']."/".$folder; $files=array(); if ($handle=opendir("$path")) { while(false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { if ($file != "." && $file != "..") { if(substr($file,-3)=='gif' || substr($file,-3)=='jpg') $files[count($files)] = $file; } } } closedir($handle); $random=rand(0,count($files)-1); if(substr($files[$random],-3)=='gif') header("Content-type: image/gif"); elseif(substr($files[$random],-3)=='jpg') header("Content-type: image/jpeg"); readfile("$path/$files[$random]"); ?>