WordPress image toolbox

function-image-toolbox.php

 // Image Toolbox
 // ****************************** 
 // based on http://digwp.com/2009/08/awesome-image-attachment-recipes-for-wordpress/
 
 function image_toolbox($size = 'thumbnail', $howmany = -1, $link = 'no', $list = 'no') {
 	if ( $images = get_children ( array (
 		'post_parent'    => get_the_ID(),
 		'post_type'      => 'attachment',
 		'numberposts'    => $howmany , // -1 = show all
 		'post_status'    => null,
 		'post_mime_type' => 'image',
 		'orderby' => 'menu_order',
 		'order' => 'ASC',
 		// 'linked' => $link, // link = create link
 	))) {
 		foreach ( $images as $image ) {
 			$attimg   = wp_get_attachment_image($image->ID,$size);
 			$atturl   = wp_get_attachment_url($image->ID);
 			$attlink  = get_attachment_link($image->ID);
 			//$postlink = get_permalink($image->post_parent);
 			//$atttitle = apply_filters('the_title',$image->post_title);
 
 			//echo '<div class="image image-'.$size.'">'; // thumb needed for galleriffic
 			if ( $list == 'li') { echo '<li>'; };
 			if ( $link == 'link') {  echo '<a href="'.$atturl.'" class="thumb">';  };
 			//if ($link == no) {echo 'no link'} ;  
 			//end if;
 			echo $attimg;
 			if ( $link == 'link') {  echo '</a>';  };
 			if ( $list == 'li') { echo '</li>'; };
 			//echo '</div>';
 		}
 	}
 }
 

How to use in your theme:

image_toolbox();

This will return all the thumbnails, without any other markup.

image_toolbox('medium',1);

This will return the medium format, and only the first image.

image_toolbox('thumbnail',-1,'link','li');

This will return all images in tumbnail format, and enclose each of them in <li> and <a href> markup.