是否可以将表数据与数组匹配，并将其转换为PHP中的html链接

Question

I currently have a jQuery script that matches the values from my table to an array to find a corresponding url and output it as html. It works fine however I would like to keep my array private (so that all of the data cannot be viewed in the inspector if a match isn't found) and from my understanding that cannot be done with javascript. I am already using PHP to dynamically create the table so I was wondering whether this would be possible.

var profiles = [{
    "name": "Susie",
    "link": "www.google.com"
  },
  {
    "name": "John",
    "link": "www.yahoo.com"
  }
];
$(document).ready(function() {
  $('tr').each(function(index, item) {
    var value = $(item).find('td').eq(1).text();
    var exist = profiles.filter(c => c.name == value);
    if (exist.length > 0) {

      var link = exist[0].link;

      $(item).find('td').eq(1).html("<a href='" + link + "'>" + value + "</a>");
    }
  })
})

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<table>
  <thead>
    <th>#</th>
    <th>Name</th>
  </thead>
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>1
        <td>Susie</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
      <td>2
        <td>John</td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>

I was thinking of using a JSON file to store the data but I am not sure where to go from there.

$data = '{"Susie": "www.google.com","John": "www.yahoo.com"}';
$array = json_decode($somedata, TRUE);

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