This REGEXP echos one thing, but enters into MySQL another. Why

$url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=&ands=&phrase=&ors=&nots=RT%2C+%40&tag=andyasks&lang=all&from=amcafee&to=&ref=&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=&until=&rpp=50";

$contents = file_get_contents($url);

$decode = json_decode($contents, true);

foreach($decode['results'] as $current) {

    if(preg_match("/?/", "$current[text]")){

    echo $current[text]."<br />";

    }

}

       

$url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=&ands=&phrase=&ors=&nots=RT%2C+%40&tag=andyasks&lang=all&from=amcafee&to=&ref=&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=&until=&rpp=50";

    $contents = file_get_contents($url);

    $decode = json_decode($contents, true);

    foreach($decode['results'] as $current) {

        $query = "INSERT IGNORE INTO andyasks (questions, date, user) VALUES ('$current[text]','$current[created_at]','Andy')";

        if(preg_match("/?/", "$current[text]")){

        mysql_query($query);

}

}

       

$url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.jsonq=&ands=&phrase=&ors=&nots=RT%2C+%40&tag=andyasks&lang=all&from=amcafee&to=&ref=&near=&within=15&units=mi&since=&until=&rpp=50";

$contents = file_get_contents($url);

$decode = json_decode($contents, true);

foreach($decode['results'] as $current)

{

    $query = "INSERT IGNORE INTO andyasks (questions, date, user) VALUES ('$current[text]','$current[created_at]','Andy')";

    if(preg_match("/?/", "$current[text]"))

    {

    mysql_real_escape_string($query);

    mysql_query($query);

    }

 }

       

class BrainDeadLogger {

        static public function log($output, $file='/tmp/test.txt') {

                file_put_contents($file,"$outputn",FILE_APPEND);

        }

}      

BrainDeadLogger::log($sql);

       

tail -f /tmp/test.txt