PHP dudes... need some help

[jbergdoll]

I want to make it so that all that I have to do for a link to a new gallery to appear in my "galleries" section of my website is to create a new directory in the specified galleries folder on my server. When clicking on the gallery link, I would like it to open my photos.php page, and then display all the photos from that gallery (without having to create a new page, using PHP commands to display the photos) and the URL appear something like this:
www.josephbergdoll.com/photos.php?set=12 (http://www.josephbergdoll.com/photos.php?set=12) or something like that.

How would I go about creating this? I am no newbie to designing and creating web pages, but PHP definitely is not my strong point. Thank you for your help in advance!

here's an example by the way...

http://willtopete.com/archive.php

[aram535]

I don't think I understand what you're asking for. You want to link photographs out of gallery onto a page? Or a link to each photograph on its own page without going through gallery?

[jbergdoll]

It doesn't matter now, I'm doing it a different way.

[bieber]

Ideally you're going to want to keep everything in a central database. You can use directory listings, but it's tricky...