How can PHP 5 be utilized to improve the process of automatically displaying images from a folder?

To automatically display images from a folder using PHP 5, you can use the opendir() function to open the directory, loop through each file using readdir(), and display images with the appropriate HTML tags.

<?php
$dir = "images/";
if (is_dir($dir)) {
    if ($dh = opendir($dir)) {
        while (($file = readdir($dh)) !== false) {
            if ($file != '.' && $file != '..') {
                echo '<img src="' . $dir . $file . '" alt="Image" />';
            }
        }
        closedir($dh);
    }
}
?>