preg_match works in regexbuddy, not in php

Question

Ok so I have this regex that I created and it works fine in RegexBuddy but not when I load it into php. Below is an example of it.

Using RegexBuddy I can get it to works with this:

\[code\](.*)\[/code\]

And checking the dot matches newline, I added the case insensitive, but it works that way as well.

Here is the php:

$q = "[code]<div>html code to display on screen</div>[/code]";

$pattern = '/\[code\](.*)\[/code\]/si';

$m = preg_match($pattern, $q, $code);

So you can see I am using [code][/code] and then once I can extract this I will run htmlentities() on it to display instead of render html code.

Answer 1

You're including the forward slash in the middle of your pattern (/code). Either escape it or delimit your pattern with something else (I prefer !).