Get between square brackets

[smartic]

$special_chr = '\w\~\`\!\@\#\$\%\^\&\*\(\)\_\-\+\=\\\{\}\¦\:\;\"\'\?\/\>\.\<\, ';

$str = '[name=mickel[]][last=sdaddads]';

preg_match_all("/\[([$special_chr]+=[$special_chr]*)\]/D", $str, $match);

how can i get name mickel[] with this pattern, it only gets last.

[smartic]

any help please ?

[JKing]

I am not all that great with regular expressions.

What about after replacing all special characters searching for the [] and switching that to a special character.

Then you can run a regular expression to extract the two matches between the square brackets.

After that replace your special character with [].

[kovik]

Nesting is tough to deal with. Generally, you'd need more than a single regex call.