Question

I have a string such as:

#sometag-{serialized-data-here}

And I want to match this pattern, but use everything inside the curly braces (so I can unserialize it later). How can I match this text pattern with preg_match()?

So far I have:

preg_match('~{[^{}]*}~', $text, $match);

but this just matches the contents of the braces if in $text without the hash tag.

EDIT: Here is the logic of what im trying to accomplish:

  $user_post = "Here is my cool post that contains some media.";
  $media = array("mediatype" => "sometype", "id" => "ebJ2brErERQ", "title" => "Some cool video", "description" => "Some cool description");  
  $user_post .= "#sometag-" . serialize($media);

Later, when I fetch $user_post from the database, I want to match the text, strip it out and display the media.

I’ll have something like this:

Here is my cool post that contains some media.#sometag-a:4:{s:9:"mediatype";s:8:"sometype";s:2:"id";s:11:"ebJ2brErERQ";s:5:"title";s:15:"Some cool video";s:11:"description";s:21:"Some cool description";}

Answer 1

Why not use explode()?

$tag_data_arr = explode('-', $text, 2);