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Dynamically populating a JavaScript image slideshow

A pesky problem with JavaScript slideshows it that you need to manually specify the images to display inside the script. If you have many images, this can quickly drive you up the wall. How about automating the process through PHP, by getting it to retrieve the file names of all images and passing it to your JavaScript slideshow to play around with?

Lets get straight to it, by creating a PHP script that gets the file names of all images inside the directory the script is placed in, and return them as a JavaScript array:

getimages.php

<?php
//PHP SCRIPT: getimages.php
Header("content-type: application/x-javascript");

//This function gets the file names of all images in the current directory
//and