diff --git a/include/Contact.php b/include/Contact.php
index 00c25df83..f69454e39 100644
--- a/include/Contact.php
+++ b/include/Contact.php
@@ -210,23 +210,27 @@ function get_contact_details_by_url($url, $uid = -1, $default = array()) {
 			`keywords`, `gender`, `photo`, `thumb`, `micro`, `forum`, `prv`, (`forum` | `prv`) AS `community`, `contact-type`, `bd` AS `birthday`, `self`
 		FROM `contact` WHERE `nurl` = ? AND `uid` = ?",
 			normalise_link($url), $uid);
+	$r = dba::inArray($s);
 
 	// Fetch the data from the contact table with "uid=0" (which is filled automatically)
-	if (!dbm::is_result($s))
+	if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 		$s = dba::p("SELECT `id`, 0 AS `cid`, `id` AS `zid`, 0 AS `gid`, `uid`, `url`, `nurl`, `alias`, `network`, `name`, `nick`, `addr`, `location`, `about`, `xmpp`,
 			`keywords`, `gender`, `photo`, `thumb`, `micro`, `forum`, `prv`, (`forum` | `prv`) AS `community`, `contact-type`, `bd` AS `birthday`, 0 AS `self`
 			FROM `contact` WHERE `nurl` = ? AND `uid` = 0",
 				normalise_link($url));
+		$r = dba::inArray($s);
+	}
 
 	// Fetch the data from the gcontact table
-	if (!dbm::is_result($s))
+	if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 		$s = dba::p("SELECT 0 AS `id`, 0 AS `cid`, `id` AS `gid`, 0 AS `zid`, 0 AS `uid`, `url`, `nurl`, `alias`, `network`, `name`, `nick`, `addr`, `location`, `about`, '' AS `xmpp`,
 			`keywords`, `gender`, `photo`, `photo` AS `thumb`, `photo` AS `micro`, `community` AS `forum`, 0 AS `prv`, `community`, `contact-type`, `birthday`, 0 AS `self`
 			FROM `gcontact` WHERE `nurl` = ?",
 				normalise_link($url));
-
-	if (dbm::is_result($s)) {
 		$r = dba::inArray($s);
+	}
+
+	if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 		// If there is more than one entry we filter out the connector networks
 		if (count($r) > 1) {
 			foreach ($r AS $id => $result) {
diff --git a/include/dba.php b/include/dba.php
index a7689bc0f..6bb18a0b7 100644
--- a/include/dba.php
+++ b/include/dba.php
@@ -1338,6 +1338,10 @@ class dba {
 	 * @return array Data array
 	 */
 	static public function inArray($stmt, $do_close = true) {
+		if (is_bool($stmt)) {
+			return $stmt;
+		}
+
 		$data = array();
 		while ($row = self::fetch($stmt)) {
 			$data[] = $row;
diff --git a/include/identity.php b/include/identity.php
index 7ce18309b..34c0413df 100644
--- a/include/identity.php
+++ b/include/identity.php
@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ function profile_load(App $a, $nickname, $profile = 0, $profiledata = array()) {
 
 	$pdata = get_profiledata_by_nick($nickname, $user[0]['uid'], $profile);
 
-	if (($pdata === false) || (!count($pdata)) && !count($profiledata)) {
+	if (empty($pdata) && empty($profiledata)) {
 		logger('profile error: ' . $a->query_string, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 		notice( t('Requested profile is not available.') . EOL );
 		$a->error = 404;
diff --git a/mod/hovercard.php b/mod/hovercard.php
index 5c9ef61fc..26c606251 100644
--- a/mod/hovercard.php
+++ b/mod/hovercard.php
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function hovercard_content() {
 	// If a contact is connected the url is internally changed to "redir/CID". We need the pure url to search for
 	// the contact. So we strip out the contact id from the internal url and look in the contact table for
 	// the real url (nurl)
-	if(local_user() && strpos($profileurl, "redir/") === 0) {
+	if (local_user() && strpos($profileurl, "redir/") === 0) {
 		$cid = intval(substr($profileurl, 6));
 		$r = dba::select('contact', array('nurl', 'self'), array('id' => $cid), array('limit' => 1));
 		$profileurl = ($r["nurl"] ? $r["nurl"] : "");
@@ -52,7 +52,6 @@ function hovercard_content() {
 		// Search for contact data
 		$contact = get_contact_details_by_url($nurl);
 	}
-
 	if(!is_array($contact))
 		return;