Warning: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Unkno

Question

I keep getting this error about 20 times in my wordpress blog about the same line of code. Here is the line of code that keeps getting the error.

if ( preg_match( '/' . $id_base . '-([0-9]+)$/', $widget_id, $matches ) )
        $number = max($number, $matches[1]);

What could be wrong?

Answer 1

Your regex will break if the string $id_base has a / in it as you are using / as the regex delimiter.

To fix this use preg_quote on $id_base as:

if (preg_match('/'. preg_quote($id_base,'/').'-([0-9]+)$/', .....) {