getRandomImage from a specific album

bplasma

please forgive me if this question is super noobed out...

i am looking to create a page that displays 6 random images from a specific gallery.

i found the code on the zp.org site used to display a single random image from *all* galleries and it works well:

$randomImage = getRandomImages();
$randomImageURL = getURL($randomImage);
echo "<img src='".$randomImage->getSizedImage(getOption('image_size')) . "' alt=\"random image\"\n" . $randomImage->getTitle() .'" />';

i also found the getRandomImageAlbum function, but am unsure how to use it from a page that is not within an album (i.e. splash page on site).

my questions:

1. how can i specify a gallery to choose the images from?
2. do i need to put the above block of code in the page 6 times to achieve this effect?

thanks very much for the help.

JP

sbillard

`getRandomImagesAlbum()1` will return a single image from the current album. Call it siz times and display the image each time.

bplasma

Thank you very much for the response. This sounds perfect. One last question, is there a way to specify an album as a variable in the page instead of in the URL?

My intent is to have the front page of my website (i.e. http://domain.com/index.php) display 6 images from a specific gallery. For a reference, I have it running here, using pMachine:

http://joshuapickering.com/

Again, many thanks for your help.