note 96753 modified in sphinxclient.escapestring by danbrown

according to http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=5225: this function doesn't really do what one would expect (mysql_real_escape_string style) and is more meant to escape individual keywords... my experience it works better to manually escape reserved characters, for example: <?php $string='make big $ online'; $escaped=str_replace('$','\\$',$string); ?> --was-- according to http://www.sphinxsearch.com/forum/view.html?id=5225: this function doesn't really do what one would expect (mysql_real_escape_string style) and is more meant to escape individual keywords... my experience it works better to manually escape reserved characters, for example: $string='make big $ online'; $escaped=str_replace('$','\\$',$string); http://php.net/manual/en/sphinxclient.escapestring.php