Array placeholders - arrays

Question

I’ve got an array where PLACEHOLDER is a placeholder for the variable $value that I get later in the code:
$names = array(
"<a href='http://skyler.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Skyler</a>",
"<a href='http://jesse.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Jesse</a>",
"<a href='http://walter.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Walter</a>",
"<a href='http://skyler.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Skyler</a>",
"<a href='http://hank.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Hank</a>",
"<a href='http://marie.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Marie</a>",
"<a href='http://walter.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Walter</a>",
"<a href='http://walter.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Walter</a>",
"<a href='http://jesse.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Jesse</a>",
);
To check how often an equal value is in my array,
I count them with array_count_values.
$count = array_count_values($names);
foreach ($count as $key => $value) {
echo $value . ' – ' . $key . '<br />';
}
So I get something like this:
3 – <a href='http:/walter.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Walter</a>
2 – <a href='http://jesse.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Jesse</a>
2 – <a href='http://skyler.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Skyler</a>
1 – <a href='http://hank.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Hank</a>
1 – <a href='http://marie.com' title='PLACEHOLDER'>Marie</a>
Now I’d PLACEHOLDER be replaced by $value, so I get the number as title tag of the link.

Answer 1

foreach ($count as $key => $value) {
echo $value . ' – ' . str_replace('PLACEHOLDER', $value, $key) . '<br />';
}

Answer 2

What are you asking, I don't understand, you want to replace PLACEHOLD with $value then do this
$names = array(
"<a href='http://skyler.com' title='".$PLACEHOLDER."'>Skyler</a>",
"<a href='http://jesse.com' title='".$PLACEHOLDER."'>Jesse</a>"
);

Answer 3

Use str_replace to replace PLACEHOLDER with $value
foreach ($count as $key => $value) {
$key = str_replace('PLACEHOLDER', $value, $key); //<--replace PLACEHOLDER here
echo $value . ' – ' . $key . '<br />';
}

Answer 4

Correct code is :
foreach ($count as $key => $value) {
echo str_replace('PLACEHOLDER', $value, $key); //this will replace placeholder with number of tags
echo '<br />';
}