From 852959cf2bb304d9bcb115588df8565b335c8130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KYPREO <58344533+KYPREO@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2020 16:42:53 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] [ticket/16234] Fix & enhance Sphinx search backend
 functionality

PHPBB3-16234
PHPBB3-16233
PHPBB3-15367
PHPBB3-13958
---
 phpBB/phpbb/search/fulltext_sphinx.php | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/phpBB/phpbb/search/fulltext_sphinx.php b/phpBB/phpbb/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
index dc784ef0e1..d37f26856c 100644
--- a/phpBB/phpbb/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
+++ b/phpBB/phpbb/search/fulltext_sphinx.php
@@ -449,10 +449,9 @@ class fulltext_sphinx
 		}
 		else
 		{
-			$match = ['\\', '(',')','|','!','@','~', '/', '^', '$', '=','&amp;', '&lt;', '&gt;'];
-			$replace = [' ', ' ', ' ', ' ',' ',' ',' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' ', ' '];
+			$match = ['\\', '(',')', '|', '!', '@', '~', '/', '^', '$', '=', '&amp;', '&lt;', '&gt;'];
 
-			$keywords = str_replace($match, $replace, $keywords);
+			$keywords = str_replace($match, ' ', $keywords);
 			$this->sphinx->SetMatchMode(SPH_MATCH_ANY);
 		}