file reader > echo html links (code inside)

Basically, I have this code for reading directory contents:

<?
$mydir = "/path/to/dir/";
$d = dir($mydir);
while($entry = $d->read()) {
 if ($entry!= "." && $entry!= "..") {
 echo "<br><a href=\"/dir/",$entry,"\">$entry</a>";
 }
}
$d->close();
?>

Code (markup):

It reads the contents of the specified directory ($mydir) and prints a load of links to each of the files within that directory on the page it's placed on.

My problem:
As all filenames obviously have an extension, the link's anchor text ($entry) is appearing as the full filename like "mypage.php".

How can I adapt the code to remove the file extention for the anchor text?

Thanks in advance for any pointers and/or solutions.

 

echo '<br><a href="/dir/'. $entry .'">'. preg_replace('/\.[a-z0-9]+$/i', null, $entry) .'</a>;

PHP:

Untested but should work.

 

Thanks Nico, that particularly line came back with a syntax unexpected $end error.

I changed it to the following and it now works superbly:

echo "<br><a href=\"/dir/". $entry ."\">". preg_replace('/\.[a-z0-9]+$/i', null, $entry) ."</a>";

Code (markup):

Thanks for the help, wouldn't have got anywhere near it without you.

 

My bad. Just forgot a quote at the end. Glad it works.