PHP HTML foreach directory link not working

I am trying to create a html view of each php file in a directory, the only thing I cannot seem to do is create the link from the value of the array that I gathered above. No errors are thrown, but the link just isn't clickable. <?php $peopledirectory = 'kb/people'; if (! is_dir($peopledirectory)) { exit('Invalid diretory path'); } $people = array(); foreach (scandir($peopledirectory) as $person) { if ('.' === $person) continue; if ('..' === $person) continue; $people[] = $person; } var_dump($people); ?> <main class="main-content"> <div class="container"> <ul class="gallery-filter"> <li><a href="#" class="current" data-filter="*">All Intel</a> </li> <li><a href="#" data-filter=".people">People</a> </li> </ul> <ul class="gallery-list gallery-list__grid"> <?php foreach($people as $key=>$value) { echo' <li class="gallery-item people ' . $value . '"> <figure class="gallery-thumb"> <a href="' . $value . '"><img src="/assets/images/big_logo.png" alt=""> </a> </figure> <div class="gallery-caption"> <div class="gallery-caption-holder"> <div class="gallery-caption-inner1"> <div class="gallery-caption-inner2"> <h5><a href="' . $value . '" style="color:#000;"></a></h5> <div class="gallery-excerpt" style="color:#000;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> <span class="date"> <span class="date-inner">' . $value . '</span> </span> </div> </li> '; } ?> </ul> </div> </main>