diff --git a/runtime/syntax/php.vim b/runtime/syntax/php.vim
index 4e6b95c..f9104ad 100644
--- a/runtime/syntax/php.vim
+++ b/runtime/syntax/php.vim
@@ -1,11 +1,10 @@
 " Vim syntax file
 " Language: php PHP 3/4/5
-" Maintainer: Peter Hodge <toomuchphp-vim@yahoo.com>
-" Last Change:  June 9, 2006
-" URL: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1571
-"
-" Former Maintainer:  Debian VIM Maintainers <pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
-" Former URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-vim/trunk/runtime/syntax/php.vim?op=file&rev=0&sc=0
+" Maintainer: Jason Woofenden <jason@jasonwoof.com>
+" Last Change:  April 28, 2011
+" URL: https://gitorious.org/jasonwoof/vim-syntax/blobs/master/php.vim
+" Former Maintainers: Peter Hodge <toomuchphp-vim@yahoo.com>
+"         Debian VIM Maintainers <pkg-vim-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
 "
 " Note: If you are using a colour terminal with dark background, you will probably find
 "       the 'elflord' colorscheme is much better for PHP's syntax than the default
@@ -327,6 +326,8 @@
 syn match phpSpecialChar  "\\[abcfnrtyv\\]" contained display
 syn match phpSpecialChar  "\\\d\{3}"  contained contains=phpOctalError display
 syn match phpSpecialChar  "\\x\x\{2}" contained display
+syn match phpDoubleSpecialChar "\\\"" contained display
+syn match phpSingleSpecialChar "\\[\\']" contained display
 
 " Error
 syn match phpOctalError "[89]"  contained display
@@ -355,13 +356,13 @@
 
 " String
 if exists("php_parent_error_open")
-  syn region  phpStringDouble matchgroup=None start=+"+ skip=+\\\\\|\\"+ end=+"+  contains=@phpAddStrings,phpIdentifier,phpSpecialChar,phpIdentifierSimply,phpIdentifierComplex contained keepend
+  syn region  phpStringDouble matchgroup=None start=+"+ skip=+\\\\\|\\"+ end=+"+  contains=@phpAddStrings,phpIdentifier,phpSpecialChar,phpIdentifierSimply,phpIdentifierComplex,phpDoubleSpecialChar contained keepend
   syn region  phpBacktick matchgroup=None start=+`+ skip=+\\\\\|\\"+ end=+`+  contains=@phpAddStrings,phpIdentifier,phpSpecialChar,phpIdentifierSimply,phpIdentifierComplex contained keepend
-  syn region  phpStringSingle matchgroup=None start=+'+ skip=+\\\\\|\\'+ end=+'+  contains=@phpAddStrings contained keepend
+  syn region  phpStringSingle matchgroup=None start=+'+ skip=+\\\\\|\\'+ end=+'+  contains=@phpAddStrings,phpSingleSpecialChar contained keepend
 else
-  syn region  phpStringDouble matchgroup=None start=+"+ skip=+\\\\\|\\"+ end=+"+  contains=@phpAddStrings,phpIdentifier,phpSpecialChar,phpIdentifierSimply,phpIdentifierComplex contained extend keepend
+  syn region  phpStringDouble matchgroup=None start=+"+ skip=+\\\\\|\\"+ end=+"+  contains=@phpAddStrings,phpIdentifier,phpSpecialChar,phpIdentifierSimply,phpIdentifierComplex,phpDoubleSpecialChar contained extend keepend
   syn region  phpBacktick matchgroup=None start=+`+ skip=+\\\\\|\\"+ end=+`+  contains=@phpAddStrings,phpIdentifier,phpSpecialChar,phpIdentifierSimply,phpIdentifierComplex contained extend keepend
-  syn region  phpStringSingle matchgroup=None start=+'+ skip=+\\\\\|\\'+ end=+'+  contains=@phpAddStrings contained keepend extend
+  syn region  phpStringSingle matchgroup=None start=+'+ skip=+\\\\\|\\'+ end=+'+  contains=@phpAddStrings,phpSingleSpecialChar contained keepend extend
 endif
 
 " HereDoc
@@ -613,6 +614,8 @@
   HiLink   phpInclude Include
   HiLink   phpDefine  Define
   HiLink   phpSpecialChar SpecialChar
+  HiLink   phpDoubleSpecialChar SpecialChar
+  HiLink   phpSingleSpecialChar SpecialChar
   HiLink   phpParent  Delimiter
   HiLink   phpIdentifierConst Delimiter
   HiLink   phpParentError Error