Capturing text between square brackets in PHP
Matches all strings with brackets:
$text = '[This] is a [test] string, [eat] my [shorts].';
preg_match_all("/\[[^\]]*\]/", $text, $matches);
var_dump($matches[0]);
If You want strings without brackets:
$text = '[This] is a [test] string, [eat] my [shorts].';
preg_match_all("/\[([^\]]*)\]/", $text, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]);
Alternative, slower version of matching without brackets (using "*" instead of "[^]"):
$text = '[This] is a [test] string, [eat] my [shorts].';
preg_match_all("/\[(.*?)\]/", $text, $matches);
var_dump($matches[1]);