List files using Loop

I was hoping someone could tell me how to list the files in a directory one by one using a loop. I know it's possible to just put ls -l directory1, but I want to go through the files in the directory one by one and list them that way.

My script file is called forloop

for file in $(ls -a $1)
do
ls -l $1/$file
done

When I run: forloop junk1 I get a listing of ALL my files when I just want a listing of files in junk1.

the -l (ell) option for ls is the long listing, so when the object of that is a directory, it will list the directory ... In the loop you could either use -ld or filter out directories in the loop control if you want to.