diff --git a/include/acl_selectors.php b/include/acl_selectors.php
index f2d2999ba6..f57af575af 100644
--- a/include/acl_selectors.php
+++ b/include/acl_selectors.php
@@ -4,11 +4,11 @@
  * @file include/acl_selectors.php
  */
 
-require_once("include/contact_selectors.php");
-require_once("include/contact_widgets.php");
-require_once("include/DirSearch.php");
-require_once("include/features.php");
-require_once("mod/proxy.php");
+require_once "include/contact_selectors.php";
+require_once "include/contact_widgets.php";
+require_once "include/DirSearch.php";
+require_once "include/features.php";
+require_once "mod/proxy.php";
 
 
 /**
@@ -35,10 +35,11 @@ function group_select($selname,$selclass,$preselected = false,$size = 4) {
 
 	if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 		foreach ($r as $rr) {
-			if((is_array($preselected)) && in_array($rr['id'], $preselected))
+			if ((is_array($preselected)) && in_array($rr['id'], $preselected)) {
 				$selected = " selected=\"selected\" ";
-			else
+			} else {
 				$selected = '';
+			}
 
 			$trimmed = mb_substr($rr['name'],0,12);
 
@@ -54,7 +55,8 @@ function group_select($selname,$selclass,$preselected = false,$size = 4) {
 	return $o;
 }
 
-
+/// @TODO after an optional parameter, no mandadory parameter can follow
+/// @TODO find proper type-hints
 function contact_selector($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $options) {
 
 	$a = get_app();
@@ -66,40 +68,42 @@ function contact_selector($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $options) {
 	$size = 4;
 
 	if (is_array($options)) {
-		if (x($options,'size'))
+		if (x($options, 'size'))
 			$size = $options['size'];
 
-		if (x($options,'mutual_friends')) {
+		if (x($options, 'mutual_friends')) {
 			$mutual = true;
 		}
-		if (x($options,'single')) {
+		if (x($options, 'single')) {
 			$single = true;
 		}
-		if (x($options,'multiple')) {
+		if (x($options, 'multiple')) {
 			$single = false;
 		}
-		if (x($options,'exclude')) {
+		if (x($options, 'exclude')) {
 			$exclude = $options['exclude'];
 		}
 
-		if (x($options,'networks')) {
-			switch($options['networks']) {
+		if (x($options, 'networks')) {
+			switch ($options['networks']) {
 				case 'DFRN_ONLY':
 					$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN);
 					break;
 				case 'PRIVATE':
-					if(is_array($a->user) && $a->user['prvnets'])
-						$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN,NETWORK_MAIL,NETWORK_DIASPORA);
-					else
-						$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN,NETWORK_FACEBOOK,NETWORK_MAIL, NETWORK_DIASPORA);
+					if (is_array($a->user) && $a->user['prvnets']) {
+						$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_MAIL, NETWORK_DIASPORA);
+					} else {
+						$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_FACEBOOK, NETWORK_MAIL, NETWORK_DIASPORA);
+					}
 					break;
 				case 'TWO_WAY':
-					if(is_array($a->user) && $a->user['prvnets'])
-						$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN,NETWORK_MAIL,NETWORK_DIASPORA);
-					else
-						$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN,NETWORK_FACEBOOK,NETWORK_MAIL,NETWORK_DIASPORA,NETWORK_OSTATUS);
+					if (is_array($a->user) && $a->user['prvnets']) {
+						$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_MAIL, NETWORK_DIASPORA);
+					} else {
+						$networks = array(NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_FACEBOOK, NETWORK_MAIL, NETWORK_DIASPORA, NETWORK_OSTATUS);
+					}
 					break;
-				default:
+				default: /// @TODO Maybe log this call?
 					break;
 			}
 		}
@@ -113,26 +117,30 @@ function contact_selector($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $options) {
 
 	$sql_extra = '';
 
-	if($x['mutual']) {
+	if (x($x, 'mutual')) {
 		$sql_extra .= sprintf(" AND `rel` = %d ", intval(CONTACT_IS_FRIEND));
 	}
 
-	if(intval($x['exclude']))
+	if (x($x, 'exclude')) {
 		$sql_extra .= sprintf(" AND `id` != %d ", intval($x['exclude']));
+	}
 
-	if(is_array($x['networks']) && count($x['networks'])) {
-		for($y = 0; $y < count($x['networks']) ; $y ++)
+	if (is_array($x['networks']) && count($x['networks'])) {
+		/// @TODO rewrite to foreach()
+		for ($y = 0; $y < count($x['networks']) ; $y ++) {
 			$x['networks'][$y] = "'" . dbesc($x['networks'][$y]) . "'";
-		$str_nets = implode(',',$x['networks']);
+		}
+		$str_nets = implode(',', $x['networks']);
 		$sql_extra .= " AND `network` IN ( $str_nets ) ";
 	}
 
 	$tabindex = (x($options, 'tabindex') ? "tabindex=\"" . $options["tabindex"] . "\"" : "");
 
-	if($x['single'])
+	if ($x['single']) {
 		$o .= "<select name=\"$selname\" id=\"$selclass\" class=\"$selclass\" size=\"" . $x['size'] . "\" $tabindex >\r\n";
-	else
+	} else {
 		$o .= "<select name=\"{$selname}[]\" id=\"$selclass\" class=\"$selclass\" multiple=\"multiple\" size=\"" . $x['size'] . "$\" $tabindex >\r\n";
+	}
 
 	$r = q("SELECT `id`, `name`, `url`, `network` FROM `contact`
 		WHERE `uid` = %d AND NOT `self` AND NOT `blocked` AND NOT `pending` AND NOT `archive` AND `notify` != ''
@@ -174,7 +182,7 @@ function contact_selector($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $options) {
 
 function contact_select($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $size = 4, $privmail = false, $celeb = false, $privatenet = false, $tabindex = null) {
 
-	require_once("include/bbcode.php");
+	require_once "include/bbcode.php";
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
@@ -185,29 +193,32 @@ function contact_select($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $size = 4, $p
 
 	$sql_extra = '';
 
-	if($privmail || $celeb) {
+	if ($privmail || $celeb) {
 		$sql_extra .= sprintf(" AND `rel` = %d ", intval(CONTACT_IS_FRIEND));
 	}
 
-	if($privmail)
+	if ($privmail) {
 		$sql_extra .= sprintf(" AND `network` IN ('%s' , '%s') ",
 					NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_DIASPORA);
-	elseif($privatenet)
+	} elseif ($privatenet) {
 		$sql_extra .= sprintf(" AND `network` IN ('%s' , '%s', '%s', '%s') ",
 					NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_MAIL, NETWORK_FACEBOOK, NETWORK_DIASPORA);
+	}
 
 	$tabindex = ($tabindex > 0 ? "tabindex=\"$tabindex\"" : "");
 
 	if ($privmail AND $preselected) {
 		$sql_extra .= " AND `id` IN (".implode(",", $preselected).")";
 		$hidepreselected = ' style="display: none;"';
-	} else
+	} else {
 		$hidepreselected = "";
+	}
 
-	if($privmail)
+	if ($privmail) {
 		$o .= "<select name=\"$selname\" id=\"$selclass\" class=\"$selclass\" size=\"$size\" $tabindex $hidepreselected>\r\n";
-	else
+	} else {
 		$o .= "<select name=\"{$selname}[]\" id=\"$selclass\" class=\"$selclass\" multiple=\"multiple\" size=\"$size\" $tabindex >\r\n";
+	}
 
 	$r = q("SELECT `id`, `name`, `url`, `network` FROM `contact`
 		WHERE `uid` = %d AND NOT `self` AND NOT `blocked` AND NOT `pending` AND NOT `archive` AND `notify` != ''
@@ -229,8 +240,7 @@ function contact_select($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $size = 4, $p
 		foreach ($r as $rr) {
 			if ((is_array($preselected)) && in_array($rr['id'], $preselected)) {
 				$selected = " selected=\"selected\" ";
-			}
-			else {
+			} else {
 				$selected = '';
 			}
 
@@ -249,8 +259,9 @@ function contact_select($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $size = 4, $p
 
 	$o .= "</select>\r\n";
 
-	if ($privmail AND $preselected)
+	if ($privmail AND $preselected) {
 		$o .= implode(", ", $receiverlist);
+	}
 
 	call_hooks($a->module . '_post_' . $selname, $o);
 
@@ -259,7 +270,7 @@ function contact_select($selname, $selclass, $preselected = false, $size = 4, $p
 
 
 function fixacl(&$item) {
-	$item = intval(str_replace(array('<','>'),array('',''),$item));
+	$item = intval(str_replace(array('<', '>'), array('', ''), $item));
 }
 
 function prune_deadguys($arr) {
@@ -268,7 +279,7 @@ function prune_deadguys($arr) {
 		return $arr;
 	}
 
-	$str = dbesc(implode(',',$arr));
+	$str = dbesc(implode(',', $arr));
 
 	$r = q("SELECT `id` FROM `contact` WHERE `id` IN ( " . $str . ") AND `blocked` = 0 AND `pending` = 0 AND `archive` = 0 ");
 
@@ -287,7 +298,7 @@ function prune_deadguys($arr) {
 function get_acl_permissions($user = null) {
 	$allow_cid = $allow_gid = $deny_cid = $deny_gid = false;
 
-	if(is_array($user)) {
+	if (is_array($user)) {
 		$allow_cid = ((strlen($user['allow_cid']))
 			? explode('><', $user['allow_cid']) : array() );
 		$allow_gid = ((strlen($user['allow_gid']))
@@ -318,34 +329,36 @@ function populate_acl($user = null, $show_jotnets = false) {
 	$perms = get_acl_permissions($user);
 
 	$jotnets = '';
-	if($show_jotnets) {
+	if ($show_jotnets) {
 		$mail_disabled = ((function_exists('imap_open') && (! get_config('system','imap_disabled'))) ? 0 : 1);
 
 		$mail_enabled = false;
 		$pubmail_enabled = false;
 
-		if(! $mail_disabled) {
+		if (! $mail_disabled) {
 			$r = q("SELECT `pubmail` FROM `mailacct` WHERE `uid` = %d AND `server` != '' LIMIT 1",
 				intval(local_user())
 			);
 			if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$mail_enabled = true;
-				if(intval($r[0]['pubmail']))
+				if (intval($r[0]['pubmail'])) {
 					$pubmail_enabled = true;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
 		if (!$user['hidewall']) {
-			if($mail_enabled) {
+			if ($mail_enabled) {
 				$selected = (($pubmail_enabled) ? ' checked="checked" ' : '');
 				$jotnets .= '<div class="profile-jot-net"><input type="checkbox" name="pubmail_enable"' . $selected . ' value="1" /> ' . t("Post to Email") . '</div>';
 			}
 
 			call_hooks('jot_networks', $jotnets);
-		} else
+		} else {
 			$jotnets .= sprintf(t('Connectors disabled, since "%s" is enabled.'),
 					    t('Hide your profile details from unknown viewers?'));
 		}
+	}
 
 	$tpl = get_markup_template("acl_selector.tpl");
 	$o = replace_macros($tpl, array(
@@ -363,7 +376,7 @@ function populate_acl($user = null, $show_jotnets = false) {
 		'$aclModalTitle' => t('Permissions'),
 		'$aclModalDismiss' => t('Close'),
 		'$features' => array(
-		"aclautomention"=>(feature_enabled($user['uid'],"aclautomention")?"true":"false")
+		'aclautomention' => (feature_enabled($user['uid'], "aclautomention") ? "true" : "false")
 		),
 	));
 
@@ -379,24 +392,26 @@ function construct_acl_data(App $a, $user) {
 
 	$user_defaults = get_acl_permissions($user);
 
-	if($acl_data['groups']) {
-		foreach($acl_data['groups'] as $key=>$group) {
+	if ($acl_data['groups']) {
+		foreach ($acl_data['groups'] as $key => $group) {
 			// Add a "selected" flag to groups that are posted to by default
-			if($user_defaults['allow_gid'] &&
-			   in_array($group['id'], $user_defaults['allow_gid']) && !in_array($group['id'], $user_defaults['deny_gid']) )
+			if ($user_defaults['allow_gid'] &&
+					in_array($group['id'], $user_defaults['allow_gid']) && !in_array($group['id'], $user_defaults['deny_gid']) ) {
 				$acl_data['groups'][$key]['selected'] = 1;
-			else
+			} else {
 				$acl_data['groups'][$key]['selected'] = 0;
+			}
 		}
 	}
-	if($acl_data['contacts']) {
-		foreach($acl_data['contacts'] as $key=>$contact) {
+	if ($acl_data['contacts']) {
+		foreach ($acl_data['contacts'] as $key => $contact) {
 			// Add a "selected" flag to groups that are posted to by default
-			if($user_defaults['allow_cid'] &&
-			   in_array($contact['id'], $user_defaults['allow_cid']) && !in_array($contact['id'], $user_defaults['deny_cid']) )
+			if ($user_defaults['allow_cid'] &&
+					in_array($contact['id'], $user_defaults['allow_cid']) && !in_array($contact['id'], $user_defaults['deny_cid']) ) {
 				$acl_data['contacts'][$key]['selected'] = 1;
-			else
+			} else {
 				$acl_data['contacts'][$key]['selected'] = 0;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -419,23 +434,25 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 
 	// For use with jquery.textcomplete for private mail completion
 
-	if(x($_REQUEST,'query') && strlen($_REQUEST['query'])) {
-		if(! $type)
+	if (x($_REQUEST, 'query') && strlen($_REQUEST['query'])) {
+		if (! $type) {
 			$type = 'm';
+		}
 		$search = $_REQUEST['query'];
 	}
 
 	logger("Searching for ".$search." - type ".$type, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
-	if ($search!=""){
+	if ($search != "") {
 		$sql_extra = "AND `name` LIKE '%%".dbesc($search)."%%'";
 		$sql_extra2 = "AND (`attag` LIKE '%%".dbesc($search)."%%' OR `name` LIKE '%%".dbesc($search)."%%' OR `nick` LIKE '%%".dbesc($search)."%%')";
 	} else {
+		/// @TODO Avoid these needless else blocks by putting variable-initialization atop of if()
 		$sql_extra = $sql_extra2 = "";
 	}
 
 	// count groups and contacts
-	if ($type=='' || $type=='g'){
+	if ($type == '' || $type == 'g') {
 		$r = q("SELECT COUNT(*) AS g FROM `group` WHERE `deleted` = 0 AND `uid` = %d $sql_extra",
 			intval(local_user())
 		);
@@ -446,8 +463,8 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 
 	$sql_extra2 .= " ".unavailable_networks();
 
-	// autocomplete for editor mentions
-	if ($type=='' || $type=='c'){
+	if ($type == '' || $type == 'c') {
+		// autocomplete for editor mentions
 		$r = q("SELECT COUNT(*) AS c FROM `contact`
 				WHERE `uid` = %d AND NOT `self`
 				AND NOT `blocked` AND NOT `pending` AND NOT `archive`
@@ -493,7 +510,7 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 	$groups = array();
 	$contacts = array();
 
-	if ($type=='' || $type=='g'){
+	if ($type == '' || $type == 'g') {
 
 		/// @todo We should cache this query.
 		// This can be done when we can delete cache entries via wildcard
@@ -510,7 +527,7 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 			intval($count)
 		);
 
-		foreach($r as $g){
+		foreach ($r as $g) {
 //		logger('acl: group: ' . $g['name'] . ' members: ' . $g['uids']);
 			$groups[] = array(
 				"type"  => "g",
@@ -524,7 +541,7 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if ($type==''){
+	if ($type == '') {
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `id`, `name`, `nick`, `micro`, `network`, `url`, `attag`, `forum`, `prv` FROM `contact`
 			WHERE `uid` = %d AND NOT `self` AND NOT `blocked` AND NOT `pending` AND NOT `archive` AND `notify` != ''
@@ -534,9 +551,7 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 			intval(local_user()),
 			dbesc(NETWORK_OSTATUS), dbesc(NETWORK_STATUSNET)
 		);
-	}
-	elseif ($type=='c'){
-
+	} elseif ($type == 'c') {
 		$r = q("SELECT `id`, `name`, `nick`, `micro`, `network`, `url`, `attag`, `forum`, `prv` FROM `contact`
 			WHERE `uid` = %d AND NOT `self` AND NOT `blocked` AND NOT `pending` AND NOT `archive` AND `notify` != ''
 			AND NOT (`network` IN ('%s'))
@@ -546,7 +561,7 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 			dbesc(NETWORK_STATUSNET)
 		);
 	}
-	elseif($type == 'm') {
+	elseif ($type == 'm') {
 		$r = q("SELECT `id`, `name`, `nick`, `micro`, `network`, `url`, `attag` FROM `contact`
 			WHERE `uid` = %d AND NOT `self` AND NOT `blocked` AND NOT `pending` AND NOT `archive`
 			AND `network` IN ('%s','%s','%s')
@@ -593,7 +608,7 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 
 
 	if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
-		foreach ($r as $g){
+		foreach ($r as $g) {
 			$contacts[] = array(
 				'type'    => 'c',
 				'photo'   => proxy_url($g['micro'], false, PROXY_SIZE_MICRO),
@@ -602,7 +617,7 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 				'network' => $g['network'],
 				'link'    => $g['url'],
 				'nick'    => htmlentities(($g['attag']) ? $g['attag'] : $g['nick']),
-				'forum'   => ((x($g['forum']) || x($g['prv'])) ? 1 : 0),
+				'forum'   => ((x($g, 'forum') || x($g, 'prv')) ? 1 : 0),
 			);
 		}
 	}
@@ -669,7 +684,7 @@ function acl_lookup(App $a, $out_type = 'json') {
 
 	call_hooks('acl_lookup_end', $results);
 
-	if($out_type === 'html') {
+	if ($out_type === 'html') {
 		$o = array(
 			'tot'      => $results['tot'],
 			'start'    => $results['start'],
diff --git a/include/api.php b/include/api.php
index 0918690264..97c09c20a9 100644
--- a/include/api.php
+++ b/include/api.php
@@ -8,39 +8,36 @@
 
 use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
-	require_once('include/HTTPExceptions.php');
+require_once 'include/HTTPExceptions.php';
+require_once 'include/bbcode.php';
+require_once 'include/datetime.php';
+require_once 'include/conversation.php';
+require_once 'include/oauth.php';
+require_once 'include/html2plain.php';
+require_once 'mod/share.php';
+require_once 'include/Photo.php';
+require_once 'mod/item.php';
+require_once 'include/security.php';
+require_once 'include/contact_selectors.php';
+require_once 'include/html2bbcode.php';
+require_once 'mod/wall_upload.php';
+require_once 'mod/proxy.php';
+require_once 'include/message.php';
+require_once 'include/group.php';
+require_once 'include/like.php';
+require_once 'include/NotificationsManager.php';
+require_once 'include/plaintext.php';
+require_once 'include/xml.php';
 
-	require_once('include/bbcode.php');
-	require_once('include/datetime.php');
-	require_once('include/conversation.php');
-	require_once('include/oauth.php');
-	require_once('include/html2plain.php');
-	require_once('mod/share.php');
-	require_once('include/Photo.php');
-	require_once('mod/item.php');
-	require_once('include/security.php');
-	require_once('include/contact_selectors.php');
-	require_once('include/html2bbcode.php');
-	require_once('mod/wall_upload.php');
-	require_once('mod/proxy.php');
-	require_once('include/message.php');
-	require_once('include/group.php');
-	require_once('include/like.php');
-	require_once('include/NotificationsManager.php');
-	require_once('include/plaintext.php');
-	require_once('include/xml.php');
+define('API_METHOD_ANY', '*');
+define('API_METHOD_GET', 'GET');
+define('API_METHOD_POST', 'POST,PUT');
+define('API_METHOD_DELETE', 'POST,DELETE');
 
+$API = array();
+$called_api = null;
 
-	define('API_METHOD_ANY','*');
-	define('API_METHOD_GET','GET');
-	define('API_METHOD_POST','POST,PUT');
-	define('API_METHOD_DELETE','POST,DELETE');
-
-
-
-	$API = Array();
-	$called_api = Null;
-
+/// @TODO Fix intending
 	/**
 	 * @brief Auth API user
 	 *
@@ -49,8 +46,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * into a page, and visitors will post something without noticing it).
 	 */
 	function api_user() {
-		if ($_SESSION['allow_api'])
+		if (x($_SESSION, 'allow_api')) {
 			return local_user();
+		}
 
 		return false;
 	}
@@ -67,16 +65,18 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * 		Client source name, default to "api" if unset/unknown
 	 */
 	function api_source() {
-		if (requestdata('source'))
-			return (requestdata('source'));
+		if (requestdata('source')) {
+			return requestdata('source');
+		}
 
 		// Support for known clients that doesn't send a source name
-		if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Twidere"))
-			return ("Twidere");
+		if (strpos($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "Twidere") !== false) {
+			return "Twidere";
+		}
 
 		logger("Unrecognized user-agent ".$_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
-		return ("api");
+		return "api";
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -85,8 +85,8 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @param string $str Source date, as UTC
 	 * @return string Date in UTC formatted as "D M d H:i:s +0000 Y"
 	 */
-	function api_date($str){
-		//Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007
+	function api_date($str) {
+		// Wed May 23 06:01:13 +0000 2007
 		return datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', $str, "D M d H:i:s +0000 Y" );
 	}
 
@@ -98,25 +98,27 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @param string $path API URL path, relative to App::get_baseurl()
 	 * @param string $func Function name to call on path request
 	 * @param bool $auth API need logged user
-	 * @param string $method
-	 * 	HTTP method reqiured to call this endpoint.
-	 * 	One of API_METHOD_ANY, API_METHOD_GET, API_METHOD_POST.
-	 *  Default to API_METHOD_ANY
+	 * @param string $method HTTP method reqiured to call this endpoint.
+	 *
+	 * One of API_METHOD_ANY, API_METHOD_GET, API_METHOD_POST.
+	 * Default to API_METHOD_ANY
 	 */
-	function api_register_func($path, $func, $auth=false, $method=API_METHOD_ANY){
+	function api_register_func($path, $func, $auth = false, $method = API_METHOD_ANY) {
 		global $API;
+
 		$API[$path] = array(
-			'func'=>$func,
-			'auth'=>$auth,
-			'method'=> $method
+			'func'   => $func,
+			'auth'   => $auth,
+			'method' => $method,
 		);
 
 		// Workaround for hotot
 		$path = str_replace("api/", "api/1.1/", $path);
+
 		$API[$path] = array(
-			'func'=>$func,
-			'auth'=>$auth,
-			'method'=> $method
+			'func'   => $func,
+			'auth'   => $auth,
+			'method' => $method,
 		);
 	}
 
@@ -136,34 +138,34 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @hook 'logged_in'
 	 * 		array $user	logged user record
 	 */
-	function api_login(App $a){
+	function api_login(App $a) {
 		// login with oauth
-		try{
+		try {
 			$oauth = new FKOAuth1();
 			list($consumer,$token) = $oauth->verify_request(OAuthRequest::from_request());
-			if (!is_null($token)){
+			if (!is_null($token)) {
 				$oauth->loginUser($token->uid);
 				call_hooks('logged_in', $a->user);
 				return;
 			}
-			echo __file__.__line__.__function__."<pre>"; var_dump($consumer, $token); die();
-		}catch(Exception $e){
+			echo __FILE__.__LINE__.__FUNCTION__ . "<pre>";
+			var_dump($consumer, $token);
+			die();
+		} catch (Exception $e) {
 			logger($e);
 		}
 
-
-
 		// workaround for HTTP-auth in CGI mode
-		if(x($_SERVER,'REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER')) {
-			$userpass = base64_decode(substr($_SERVER["REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER"],6)) ;
-			if(strlen($userpass)) {
+		if (x($_SERVER, 'REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER')) {
+			$userpass = base64_decode(substr($_SERVER["REDIRECT_REMOTE_USER"], 6)) ;
+			if (strlen($userpass)) {
 				list($name, $password) = explode(':', $userpass);
 				$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'] = $name;
 				$_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'] = $password;
 			}
 		}
 
-		if (!isset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'])) {
+		if (!x($_SERVER, 'PHP_AUTH_USER')) {
 			logger('API_login: ' . print_r($_SERVER,true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 			header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Friendica"');
 			throw new UnauthorizedException("This API requires login");
@@ -171,55 +173,51 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$user = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER'];
 		$password = $_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_PW'];
-		$encrypted = hash('whirlpool',trim($password));
+		$encrypted = hash('whirlpool', trim($password));
 
 		// allow "user@server" login (but ignore 'server' part)
-		$at=strstr($user, "@", true);
-		if ( $at ) $user=$at;
+		$at = strstr($user, "@", true);
+		if ($at) {
+			$user = $at;
+		}
 
-		/**
-		 *  next code from mod/auth.php. needs better solution
-		 */
+		// next code from mod/auth.php. needs better solution
 		$record = null;
 
 		$addon_auth = array(
 			'username' => trim($user),
 			'password' => trim($password),
 			'authenticated' => 0,
-			'user_record' => null
+			'user_record' => null,
 		);
 
-		/**
-		 *
+		/*
 		 * A plugin indicates successful login by setting 'authenticated' to non-zero value and returning a user record
 		 * Plugins should never set 'authenticated' except to indicate success - as hooks may be chained
 		 * and later plugins should not interfere with an earlier one that succeeded.
-		 *
 		 */
-
 		call_hooks('authenticate', $addon_auth);
 
-		if(($addon_auth['authenticated']) && (count($addon_auth['user_record']))) {
+		if (($addon_auth['authenticated']) && (count($addon_auth['user_record']))) {
 			$record = $addon_auth['user_record'];
-		}
-		else {
+		} else {
 			// process normal login request
-
 			$r = q("SELECT * FROM `user` WHERE (`email` = '%s' OR `nickname` = '%s')
 				AND `password` = '%s' AND NOT `blocked` AND NOT `account_expired` AND NOT `account_removed` AND `verified` LIMIT 1",
 				dbesc(trim($user)),
 				dbesc(trim($user)),
 				dbesc($encrypted)
 			);
-			if (dbm::is_result($r))
+			if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$record = $r[0];
+			}
 		}
 
-		if((! $record) || (! count($record))) {
-			logger('API_login failure: ' . print_r($_SERVER,true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
+		if ((! $record) || (! count($record))) {
+			logger('API_login failure: ' . print_r($_SERVER, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 			header('WWW-Authenticate: Basic realm="Friendica"');
-			#header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
-			#die('This api requires login');
+			//header('HTTP/1.0 401 Unauthorized');
+			//die('This api requires login');
 			throw new UnauthorizedException("This API requires login");
 		}
 
@@ -242,8 +240,10 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @return bool
 	 */
 	 function api_check_method($method) {
-		if ($method=="*") return True;
-		return strpos($method, $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) !== false;
+		if ($method == "*") {
+			return true;
+		}
+		return (strpos($method, $_SERVER['REQUEST_METHOD']) !== false);
 	 }
 
 	/**
@@ -254,39 +254,51 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @param App $a
 	 * @return string API call result
 	 */
-	function api_call(App $a){
+	function api_call(App $a) {
 		global $API, $called_api;
 
-		$type="json";
-		if (strpos($a->query_string, ".xml")>0) $type="xml";
-		if (strpos($a->query_string, ".json")>0) $type="json";
-		if (strpos($a->query_string, ".rss")>0) $type="rss";
-		if (strpos($a->query_string, ".atom")>0) $type="atom";
+		$type = "json";
+		if (strpos($a->query_string, ".xml") > 0) {
+			$type = "xml";
+		}
+		if (strpos($a->query_string, ".json") > 0) {
+			$type = "json";
+		}
+		if (strpos($a->query_string, ".rss") > 0) {
+			$type = "rss";
+		}
+		if (strpos($a->query_string, ".atom") > 0) {
+			$type = "atom";
+		}
+
 		try {
-			foreach ($API as $p=>$info){
-				if (strpos($a->query_string, $p)===0){
-					if (!api_check_method($info['method'])){
+			foreach ($API as $p => $info) {
+				if (strpos($a->query_string, $p) === 0) {
+					if (!api_check_method($info['method'])) {
 						throw new MethodNotAllowedException();
 					}
 
-					$called_api= explode("/",$p);
+					$called_api = explode("/", $p);
 					//unset($_SERVER['PHP_AUTH_USER']);
-					if ($info['auth']===true && api_user()===false) {
-							api_login($a);
+
+					/// @TODO should be "true ==[=] $info['auth']", if you miss only one = character, you assign a variable (only with ==). Let's make all this even.
+					if ($info['auth'] === true && api_user() === false) {
+						api_login($a);
 					}
 
 					logger('API call for ' . $a->user['username'] . ': ' . $a->query_string);
-					logger('API parameters: ' . print_r($_REQUEST,true));
+					logger('API parameters: ' . print_r($_REQUEST, true));
 
 					$stamp =  microtime(true);
 					$r = call_user_func($info['func'], $type);
-					$duration = (float)(microtime(true)-$stamp);
-					logger("API call duration: ".round($duration, 2)."\t".$a->query_string, LOGGER_DEBUG);
+					$duration = (float) (microtime(true) - $stamp);
+					logger("API call duration: " . round($duration, 2) . "\t" . $a->query_string, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 					if (get_config("system", "profiler")) {
 						$duration = microtime(true)-$a->performance["start"];
 
-						logger(parse_url($a->query_string, PHP_URL_PATH).": ".sprintf("Database: %s/%s, Network: %s, I/O: %s, Other: %s, Total: %s",
+						/// @TODO round() really everywhere?
+						logger(parse_url($a->query_string, PHP_URL_PATH) . ": " . sprintf("Database: %s/%s, Network: %s, I/O: %s, Other: %s, Total: %s",
 							round($a->performance["database"] - $a->performance["database_write"], 3),
 							round($a->performance["database_write"], 3),
 							round($a->performance["network"], 2),
@@ -294,65 +306,71 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 							round($duration - ($a->performance["database"] + $a->performance["network"]
 								+ $a->performance["file"]), 2),
 							round($duration, 2)),
-							LOGGER_DEBUG);
+							LOGGER_DEBUG
+						);
 
 						if (get_config("rendertime", "callstack")) {
 							$o = "Database Read:\n";
 							foreach ($a->callstack["database"] AS $func => $time) {
 								$time = round($time, 3);
-								if ($time > 0)
-									$o .= $func.": ".$time."\n";
+								if ($time > 0) {
+									$o .= $func . ": " . $time . "\n";
+								}
 							}
 							$o .= "\nDatabase Write:\n";
 							foreach ($a->callstack["database_write"] AS $func => $time) {
 								$time = round($time, 3);
-								if ($time > 0)
-									$o .= $func.": ".$time."\n";
+								if ($time > 0) {
+									$o .= $func . ": " . $time . "\n";
+								}
 							}
 
 							$o .= "\nNetwork:\n";
 							foreach ($a->callstack["network"] AS $func => $time) {
 								$time = round($time, 3);
-								if ($time > 0)
-									$o .= $func.": ".$time."\n";
+								if ($time > 0) {
+									$o .= $func . ": " . $time . "\n";
+								}
 							}
 							logger($o, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 						}
 					}
 
-
-					if ($r===false) {
-						// api function returned false withour throw an
-						// exception. This should not happend, throw a 500
+					if (false === $r) {
+						/*
+						 * api function returned false withour throw an
+						 * exception. This should not happend, throw a 500
+						 */
 						throw new InternalServerErrorException();
 					}
 
-					switch($type){
+					switch ($type) {
 						case "xml":
 							header ("Content-Type: text/xml");
 							return $r;
 							break;
 						case "json":
 							header ("Content-Type: application/json");
-							foreach($r as $rr)
+							foreach ($r as $rr)
 								$json = json_encode($rr);
-								if ($_GET['callback'])
-									$json = $_GET['callback']."(".$json.")";
+								if (x($_GET, 'callback')) {
+									$json = $_GET['callback'] . "(" . $json . ")";
+								}
 								return $json;
 							break;
 						case "rss":
 							header ("Content-Type: application/rss+xml");
-							return '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'."\n".$r;
+							return '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' . "\n" . $r;
 							break;
 						case "atom":
 							header ("Content-Type: application/atom+xml");
-							return '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'."\n".$r;
+							return '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>' . "\n" . $r;
 							break;
-
 					}
 				}
 			}
-			logger('API call not implemented: '.$a->query_string);
+
+			logger('API call not implemented: ' . $a->query_string);
 			throw new NotImplementedException();
 		} catch (HTTPException $e) {
 			header("HTTP/1.1 {$e->httpcode} {$e->httpdesc}");
@@ -371,16 +389,16 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		$error = ($e->getMessage()!==""?$e->getMessage():$e->httpdesc);
-		# TODO:  https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/response-codes
+		$error = ($e->getMessage() !== "" ? $e->getMessage() : $e->httpdesc);
+		/// @TODO:  https://dev.twitter.com/overview/api/response-codes
 
 		$error = array("error" => $error,
-				"code" => $e->httpcode." ".$e->httpdesc,
+				"code" => $e->httpcode . " " . $e->httpdesc,
 				"request" => $a->query_string);
 
 		$ret = api_format_data('status', $type, array('status' => $error));
 
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "xml":
 				header ("Content-Type: text/xml");
 				return $ret;
@@ -407,18 +425,22 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @param array $arr Array to be passed to template
 	 * @param array $user_info
 	 * @return array
+	 * @todo find proper type-hints
 	 */
-	function api_rss_extra(App $a, $arr, $user_info){
-		if (is_null($user_info)) $user_info = api_get_user($a);
+	function api_rss_extra(App $a, $arr, $user_info) {
+		if (is_null($user_info)) {
+			$user_info = api_get_user($a);
+		}
+
 		$arr['$user'] = $user_info;
 		$arr['$rss'] = array(
 			'alternate'    => $user_info['url'],
-			'self'         => App::get_baseurl(). "/". $a->query_string,
+			'self'         => App::get_baseurl() . "/" . $a->query_string,
 			'base'         => App::get_baseurl(),
 			'updated'      => api_date(null),
-			'atom_updated' => datetime_convert('UTC','UTC','now',ATOM_TIME),
+			'atom_updated' => datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', 'now', ATOM_TIME),
 			'language'     => $user_info['language'],
-			'logo'         => App::get_baseurl()."/images/friendica-32.png",
+			'logo'         => App::get_baseurl() . "/images/friendica-32.png",
 		);
 
 		return $arr;
@@ -432,13 +454,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @return bool|string
 	 * 		Contact url or False if contact id is unknown
 	 */
-	function api_unique_id_to_url($id){
+	function api_unique_id_to_url($id) {
 		$r = q("SELECT `url` FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = 0 AND `id` = %d LIMIT 1",
 			intval($id));
-		if ($r)
-			return ($r[0]["url"]);
-		else
-			return false;
+
+		return (dbm::is_result($r) && $r[0]["url"]);
 	}
 
 	/**
@@ -448,8 +468,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @param int|string $contact_id Contact ID or URL
 	 * @param string $type Return type (for errors)
 	 */
-	function api_get_user(App $a, $contact_id = Null, $type = "json"){
+	function api_get_user(App $a, $contact_id = null, $type = "json") {
 		global $called_api;
+
 		$user = null;
 		$extra_query = "";
 		$url = "";
@@ -458,68 +479,83 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		logger("api_get_user: Fetching user data for user ".$contact_id, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 		// Searching for contact URL
-		if(!is_null($contact_id) AND (intval($contact_id) == 0)){
+		if (!is_null($contact_id) AND (intval($contact_id) == 0)) {
 			$user = dbesc(normalise_link($contact_id));
 			$url = $user;
 			$extra_query = "AND `contact`.`nurl` = '%s' ";
-			if (api_user()!==false)  $extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=".intval(api_user());
+			if (api_user() !== false) {
+				$extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=" . intval(api_user());
+			}
 		}
 
 		// Searching for contact id with uid = 0
-		if(!is_null($contact_id) AND (intval($contact_id) != 0)){
+		if (!is_null($contact_id) AND (intval($contact_id) != 0)) {
 			$user = dbesc(api_unique_id_to_url($contact_id));
 
-			if ($user == "")
+			if ($user == "") {
 				throw new BadRequestException("User not found.");
+			}
 
 			$url = $user;
 			$extra_query = "AND `contact`.`nurl` = '%s' ";
-			if (api_user()!==false)  $extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=".intval(api_user());
+			if (api_user() !== false) {
+				$extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=" . intval(api_user());
+			}
 		}
 
-		if(is_null($user) && x($_GET, 'user_id')) {
+		if (is_null($user) && x($_GET, 'user_id')) {
 			$user = dbesc(api_unique_id_to_url($_GET['user_id']));
 
-			if ($user == "")
+			if ($user == "") {
 				throw new BadRequestException("User not found.");
+			}
 
 			$url = $user;
 			$extra_query = "AND `contact`.`nurl` = '%s' ";
-			if (api_user()!==false)  $extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=".intval(api_user());
+			if (api_user() !== false) {
+				$extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=" . intval(api_user());
+			}
 		}
-		if(is_null($user) && x($_GET, 'screen_name')) {
+		if (is_null($user) && x($_GET, 'screen_name')) {
 			$user = dbesc($_GET['screen_name']);
 			$nick = $user;
 			$extra_query = "AND `contact`.`nick` = '%s' ";
-			if (api_user()!==false)  $extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=".intval(api_user());
+			if (api_user() !== false) {
+				$extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=".intval(api_user());
+			}
 		}
 
-		if (is_null($user) AND ($a->argc > (count($called_api)-1)) AND (count($called_api) > 0)){
+		if (is_null($user) AND ($a->argc > (count($called_api) - 1)) AND (count($called_api) > 0)) {
 			$argid = count($called_api);
-			list($user, $null) = explode(".",$a->argv[$argid]);
-			if(is_numeric($user)){
+			list($user, $null) = explode(".", $a->argv[$argid]);
+			if (is_numeric($user)) {
 				$user = dbesc(api_unique_id_to_url($user));
 
-				if ($user == "")
+				if ($user == "") {
 					return false;
+				}
 
 				$url = $user;
 				$extra_query = "AND `contact`.`nurl` = '%s' ";
-				if (api_user()!==false)  $extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=".intval(api_user());
+				if (api_user() !== false) {
+					$extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=" . intval(api_user());
+				}
 			} else {
 				$user = dbesc($user);
 				$nick = $user;
 				$extra_query = "AND `contact`.`nick` = '%s' ";
-				if (api_user()!==false)  $extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=".intval(api_user());
+				if (api_user() !== false) {
+					$extra_query .= "AND `contact`.`uid`=" . intval(api_user());
+				}
 			}
 		}
 
 		logger("api_get_user: user ".$user, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 		if (!$user) {
-			if (api_user()===false) {
+			if (api_user() === false) {
 				api_login($a);
-				return False;
+				return false;
 			} else {
 				$user = $_SESSION['uid'];
 				$extra_query = "AND `contact`.`uid` = %d AND `contact`.`self` ";
@@ -528,8 +564,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		}
 
 		logger('api_user: ' . $extra_query . ', user: ' . $user);
+
 		// user info
-		$uinfo = q("SELECT *, `contact`.`id` as `cid` FROM `contact`
+		$uinfo = q("SELECT *, `contact`.`id` AS `cid` FROM `contact`
 				WHERE 1
 				$extra_query",
 				$user
@@ -539,18 +576,20 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		api_best_nickname($uinfo);
 
 		// if the contact wasn't found, fetch it from the contacts with uid = 0
-		if (count($uinfo)==0) {
+		if (!dbm::is_result($uinfo)) {
 			$r = array();
 
-			if ($url != "")
+			if ($url != "") {
 				$r = q("SELECT * FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = 0 AND `nurl` = '%s' LIMIT 1", dbesc(normalise_link($url)));
+			}
 
-			if ($r) {
+			if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$network_name = network_to_name($r[0]['network'], $r[0]['url']);
 
 				// If no nick where given, extract it from the address
-				if (($r[0]['nick'] == "") OR ($r[0]['name'] == $r[0]['nick']))
+				if (($r[0]['nick'] == "") OR ($r[0]['name'] == $r[0]['nick'])) {
 					$r[0]['nick'] = api_get_nick($r[0]["url"]);
+				}
 
 				$ret = array(
 					'id' => $r[0]["id"],
@@ -594,18 +633,20 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			}
 		}
 
-		if($uinfo[0]['self']) {
+		if ($uinfo[0]['self']) {
 
-			if ($uinfo[0]['network'] == "")
+			if ($uinfo[0]['network'] == "") {
 				$uinfo[0]['network'] = NETWORK_DFRN;
+			}
 
-			$usr = q("select * from user where uid = %d limit 1",
+			$usr = q("SELECT * FROM `user` WHERE `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 				intval(api_user())
 			);
-			$profile = q("select * from profile where uid = %d and `is-default` = 1 limit 1",
+			$profile = q("SELECT * FROM `profile` WHERE `uid` = %d AND `is-default` = 1 LIMIT 1",
 				intval(api_user())
 			);
 
+			/// @TODO old-lost code? (twice)
 			// Counting is deactivated by now, due to performance issues
 			// count public wall messages
 			//$r = q("SELECT COUNT(*) as `count` FROM `item` WHERE `uid` = %d AND `wall`",
@@ -622,6 +663,8 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			//$countitms = $r[0]['count'];
 			$countitms = 0;
 		}
+
+		/// @TODO old-lost code? (twice)
 /*
 		// Counting is deactivated by now, due to performance issues
 		// count friends
@@ -649,7 +692,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		$starred = $r[0]['count'];
 
 
-		if(! $uinfo[0]['self']) {
+		if (! $uinfo[0]['self']) {
 			$countfriends = 0;
 			$countfollowers = 0;
 			$starred = 0;
@@ -668,7 +711,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$pcontact_id  = get_contact($uinfo[0]['url'], 0, true);
 
-		$ret = Array(
+		$ret = array(
 			'id' => intval($pcontact_id),
 			'id_str' => (string) intval($pcontact_id),
 			'name' => (($uinfo[0]['name']) ? $uinfo[0]['name'] : $uinfo[0]['nick']),
@@ -697,6 +740,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			'follow_request_sent' => false,
 			'statusnet_blocking' => false,
 			'notifications' => false,
+			/// @TODO old way?
 			//'statusnet_profile_url' => App::get_baseurl()."/contacts/".$uinfo[0]['cid'],
 			'statusnet_profile_url' => $uinfo[0]['url'],
 			'uid' => intval($uinfo[0]['uid']),
@@ -749,11 +793,13 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		foreach ($array as $k => $v) {
 			if (is_array($v)) {
-				if ($callback($v, $k))
+				if ($callback($v, $k)) {
 					$new_array[$k] = api_walk_recursive($v, $callback);
+				}
 			} else {
-				if ($callback($v, $k))
+				if ($callback($v, $k)) {
 					$new_array[$k] = $v;
+				}
 			}
 		}
 		$array = $new_array;
@@ -770,13 +816,16 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @return boolean Should the array item be deleted?
 	 */
 	function api_reformat_xml(&$item, &$key) {
-		if (is_bool($item))
+		if (is_bool($item)) {
 			$item = ($item ? "true" : "false");
+		}
 
-		if (substr($key, 0, 10) == "statusnet_")
+		if (substr($key, 0, 10) == "statusnet_") {
 			$key = "statusnet:".substr($key, 10);
-		elseif (substr($key, 0, 10) == "friendica_")
+		} elseif (substr($key, 0, 10) == "friendica_") {
 			$key = "friendica:".substr($key, 10);
+		}
+		/// @TODO old-lost code?
 		//else
 		//	$key = "default:".$key;
 
@@ -802,18 +851,21 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 					"georss" => "http://www.georss.org/georss");
 
 		/// @todo Auto detection of needed namespaces
-		if (in_array($root_element, array("ok", "hash", "config", "version", "ids", "notes", "photos")))
+		if (in_array($root_element, array("ok", "hash", "config", "version", "ids", "notes", "photos"))) {
 			$namespaces = array();
+		}
 
-		if (is_array($data2))
+		if (is_array($data2)) {
 			api_walk_recursive($data2, "api_reformat_xml");
+		}
 
 		if ($key == "0") {
 			$data4 = array();
 			$i = 1;
 
-			foreach ($data2 AS $item)
+			foreach ($data2 AS $item) {
 				$data4[$i++.":".$childname] = $item;
+			}
 
 			$data2 = $data4;
 		}
@@ -833,11 +885,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 *
 	 * @return (string|object) XML data or JSON data
 	 */
-	function api_format_data($root_element, $type, $data){
+	function api_format_data($root_element, $type, $data) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 			case "xml":
@@ -860,11 +912,13 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * returns a 401 status code and an error message if not.
 	 * http://developer.twitter.com/doc/get/account/verify_credentials
 	 */
-	function api_account_verify_credentials($type){
+	function api_account_verify_credentials($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		unset($_REQUEST["user_id"]);
 		unset($_GET["user_id"]);
@@ -872,7 +926,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		unset($_REQUEST["screen_name"]);
 		unset($_GET["screen_name"]);
 
-		$skip_status = (x($_REQUEST,'skip_status')?$_REQUEST['skip_status']:false);
+		$skip_status = (x($_REQUEST, 'skip_status')?$_REQUEST['skip_status'] : false);
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
@@ -882,10 +936,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		// - Adding last status
 		if (!$skip_status) {
 			$user_info["status"] = api_status_show("raw");
-			if (!count($user_info["status"]))
+			if (!count($user_info["status"])) {
 				unset($user_info["status"]);
-			else
+			} else {
 				unset($user_info["status"]["user"]);
+			}
 		}
 
 		// "uid" and "self" are only needed for some internal stuff, so remove it from here
@@ -895,17 +950,18 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		return api_format_data("user", $type, array('user' => $user_info));
 
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/account/verify_credentials','api_account_verify_credentials', true);
 
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
+	api_register_func('api/account/verify_credentials','api_account_verify_credentials', true);
 
 	/**
 	 * get data from $_POST or $_GET
 	 */
-	function requestdata($k){
-		if (isset($_POST[$k])){
+	function requestdata($k) {
+		if (x($_POST, $k)) {
 			return $_POST[$k];
 		}
-		if (isset($_GET[$k])){
+		if (x($_GET, $k)) {
 			return $_GET[$k];
 		}
 		return null;
@@ -916,7 +972,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) {
+		if (api_user() === false) {
 			logger('api_statuses_update: no user');
 			throw new ForbiddenException();
 		}
@@ -926,9 +982,10 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		$_REQUEST['profile_uid'] = api_user();
 		$_REQUEST['api_source'] = true;
 		$txt = requestdata('status');
+		/// @TODO old-lost code?
 		//$txt = urldecode(requestdata('status'));
 
-		if((strpos($txt,'<') !== false) || (strpos($txt,'>') !== false)) {
+		if ((strpos($txt,'<') !== false) || (strpos($txt,'>') !== false)) {
 
 			$txt = html2bb_video($txt);
 			$config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
@@ -940,25 +997,26 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a->argv[1]=$user_info['screen_name']; //should be set to username?
 
-		$_REQUEST['hush']='yeah'; //tell wall_upload function to return img info instead of echo
+		// tell wall_upload function to return img info instead of echo
+		$_REQUEST['hush'] = 'yeah';
 		$bebop = wall_upload_post($a);
 
-		//now that we have the img url in bbcode we can add it to the status and insert the wall item.
-		$_REQUEST['body']=$txt."\n\n".$bebop;
+		// now that we have the img url in bbcode we can add it to the status and insert the wall item.
+		$_REQUEST['body'] = $txt . "\n\n" . $bebop;
 		item_post($a);
 
 		// this should output the last post (the one we just posted).
 		return api_status_show($type);
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/statuses/mediap','api_statuses_mediap', true, API_METHOD_POST);
-/*Waitman Gobble Mod*/
 
+	/// @TODO move this to top of file or somewhere better!
+	api_register_func('api/statuses/mediap','api_statuses_mediap', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 
 	function api_statuses_update($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) {
+		if (api_user() === false) {
 			logger('api_statuses_update: no user');
 			throw new ForbiddenException();
 		}
@@ -969,9 +1027,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		// logger('api_post: ' . print_r($_POST,true));
 
-		if(requestdata('htmlstatus')) {
+		if (requestdata('htmlstatus')) {
 			$txt = requestdata('htmlstatus');
-			if((strpos($txt,'<') !== false) || (strpos($txt,'>') !== false)) {
+			if ((strpos($txt, '<') !== false) || (strpos($txt, '>') !== false)) {
 				$txt = html2bb_video($txt);
 
 				$config = HTMLPurifier_Config::createDefault();
@@ -983,29 +1041,33 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				$_REQUEST['body'] = html2bbcode($txt);
 			}
 
-		} else
+		} else {
 			$_REQUEST['body'] = requestdata('status');
+		}
 
 		$_REQUEST['title'] = requestdata('title');
 
 		$parent = requestdata('in_reply_to_status_id');
 
 		// Twidere sends "-1" if it is no reply ...
-		if ($parent == -1)
+		if ($parent == -1) {
 			$parent = "";
+		}
 
-		if(ctype_digit($parent))
+		if (ctype_digit($parent)) {
 			$_REQUEST['parent'] = $parent;
-		else
+		} else {
 			$_REQUEST['parent_uri'] = $parent;
+		}
 
-		if(requestdata('lat') && requestdata('long'))
-			$_REQUEST['coord'] = sprintf("%s %s",requestdata('lat'),requestdata('long'));
+		if (requestdata('lat') && requestdata('long')) {
+			$_REQUEST['coord'] = sprintf("%s %s", requestdata('lat'), requestdata('long'));
+		}
 		$_REQUEST['profile_uid'] = api_user();
 
-		if($parent)
+		if ($parent) {
 			$_REQUEST['type'] = 'net-comment';
-		else {
+		} else {
 			// Check for throttling (maximum posts per day, week and month)
 			$throttle_day = get_config('system','throttle_limit_day');
 			if ($throttle_day > 0) {
@@ -1015,14 +1077,15 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 					AND `created` > '%s' AND `id` = `parent`",
 					intval(api_user()), dbesc($datefrom));
 
-				if ($r)
+				if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 					$posts_day = $r[0]["posts_day"];
-				else
+				} else {
 					$posts_day = 0;
+				}
 
 				if ($posts_day > $throttle_day) {
 					logger('Daily posting limit reached for user '.api_user(), LOGGER_DEBUG);
-					#die(api_error($type, sprintf(t("Daily posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_day)));
+					// die(api_error($type, sprintf(t("Daily posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_day)));
 					throw new TooManyRequestsException(sprintf(t("Daily posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_day));
 				}
 			}
@@ -1035,16 +1098,16 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 					AND `created` > '%s' AND `id` = `parent`",
 					intval(api_user()), dbesc($datefrom));
 
-				if ($r)
+				if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 					$posts_week = $r[0]["posts_week"];
-				else
+				} else {
 					$posts_week = 0;
+				}
 
 				if ($posts_week > $throttle_week) {
 					logger('Weekly posting limit reached for user '.api_user(), LOGGER_DEBUG);
-					#die(api_error($type, sprintf(t("Weekly posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_week)));
+					// die(api_error($type, sprintf(t("Weekly posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_week)));
 					throw new TooManyRequestsException(sprintf(t("Weekly posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_week));
-
 				}
 			}
 
@@ -1056,14 +1119,15 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 					AND `created` > '%s' AND `id` = `parent`",
 					intval(api_user()), dbesc($datefrom));
 
-				if ($r)
+				if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 					$posts_month = $r[0]["posts_month"];
-				else
+				} else {
 					$posts_month = 0;
+				}
 
 				if ($posts_month > $throttle_month) {
 					logger('Monthly posting limit reached for user '.api_user(), LOGGER_DEBUG);
-					#die(api_error($type, sprintf(t("Monthly posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_month)));
+					// die(api_error($type, sprintf(t("Monthly posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_month)));
 					throw new TooManyRequestsException(sprintf(t("Monthly posting limit of %d posts reached. The post was rejected."), $throttle_month));
 				}
 			}
@@ -1071,23 +1135,24 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			$_REQUEST['type'] = 'wall';
 		}
 
-		if(x($_FILES,'media')) {
+		if (x($_FILES, 'media')) {
 			// upload the image if we have one
-			$_REQUEST['hush']='yeah'; //tell wall_upload function to return img info instead of echo
+			$_REQUEST['hush'] = 'yeah'; //tell wall_upload function to return img info instead of echo
 			$media = wall_upload_post($a);
-			if(strlen($media)>0)
-				$_REQUEST['body'] .= "\n\n".$media;
+			if (strlen($media) > 0) {
+				$_REQUEST['body'] .= "\n\n" . $media;
+			}
 		}
 
 		// To-Do: Multiple IDs
 		if (requestdata('media_ids')) {
 			$r = q("SELECT `resource-id`, `scale`, `nickname`, `type` FROM `photo` INNER JOIN `user` ON `user`.`uid` = `photo`.`uid` WHERE `resource-id` IN (SELECT `resource-id` FROM `photo` WHERE `id` = %d) AND `scale` > 0 AND `photo`.`uid` = %d ORDER BY `photo`.`width` DESC LIMIT 1",
 				intval(requestdata('media_ids')), api_user());
-			if ($r) {
+			if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$phototypes = Photo::supportedTypes();
 				$ext = $phototypes[$r[0]['type']];
-				$_REQUEST['body'] .= "\n\n".'[url='.App::get_baseurl().'/photos/'.$r[0]['nickname'].'/image/'.$r[0]['resource-id'].']';
-				$_REQUEST['body'] .= '[img]'.App::get_baseurl()."/photo/".$r[0]['resource-id']."-".$r[0]['scale'].".".$ext."[/img][/url]";
+				$_REQUEST['body'] .= "\n\n" . '[url=' . App::get_baseurl() . '/photos/' . $r[0]['nickname'] . '/image/' . $r[0]['resource-id'] . ']';
+				$_REQUEST['body'] .= '[img]' . App::get_baseurl() . '/photo/' . $r[0]['resource-id'] . '-' . $r[0]['scale'] . '.' . $ext . '[/img][/url]';
 			}
 		}
 
@@ -1095,38 +1160,39 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$_REQUEST['api_source'] = true;
 
-		if (!x($_REQUEST, "source"))
+		if (!x($_REQUEST, "source")) {
 			$_REQUEST["source"] = api_source();
+		}
 
 		// call out normal post function
-
 		item_post($a);
 
 		// this should output the last post (the one we just posted).
 		return api_status_show($type);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/update','api_statuses_update', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/update_with_media','api_statuses_update', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 
-
 	function api_media_upload($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) {
+		if (api_user() === false) {
 			logger('no user');
 			throw new ForbiddenException();
 		}
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
-		if(!x($_FILES,'media')) {
+		if (!x($_FILES, 'media')) {
 			// Output error
 			throw new BadRequestException("No media.");
 		}
 
 		$media = wall_upload_post($a, false);
-		if(!$media) {
+		if (!$media) {
 			// Output error
 			throw new InternalServerErrorException();
 		}
@@ -1139,13 +1205,15 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 						"h" => $media["height"],
 						"image_type" => $media["type"]);
 
-		logger("Media uploaded: ".print_r($returndata, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
+		logger("Media uploaded: " . print_r($returndata, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 		return array("media" => $returndata);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/media/upload','api_media_upload', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 
-	function api_status_show($type){
+	function api_status_show($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
@@ -1153,10 +1221,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		logger('api_status_show: user_info: '.print_r($user_info, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
-		if ($type == "raw")
+		if ($type == "raw") {
 			$privacy_sql = "AND `item`.`allow_cid`='' AND `item`.`allow_gid`='' AND `item`.`deny_cid`='' AND `item`.`deny_gid`=''";
-		else
+		} else {
 			$privacy_sql = "";
+		}
 
 		// get last public wall message
 		$lastwall = q("SELECT `item`.*
@@ -1174,17 +1243,18 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				dbesc(normalise_link($user_info['url']))
 		);
 
-		if (count($lastwall)>0){
+		if (dbm::is_result($lastwall)) {
 			$lastwall = $lastwall[0];
 
 			$in_reply_to = api_in_reply_to($lastwall);
 
 			$converted = api_convert_item($lastwall);
 
-			if ($type == "xml")
+			if ($type == "xml") {
 				$geo = "georss:point";
-			else
+			} else {
 				$geo = "geo";
+			}
 
 			$status_info = array(
 				'created_at' => api_date($lastwall['created']),
@@ -1214,16 +1284,19 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				'statusnet_conversation_id'	=> $lastwall['parent'],
 			);
 
-			if (count($converted["attachments"]) > 0)
+			if (count($converted["attachments"]) > 0) {
 				$status_info["attachments"] = $converted["attachments"];
+			}
 
-			if (count($converted["entities"]) > 0)
+			if (count($converted["entities"]) > 0) {
 				$status_info["entities"] = $converted["entities"];
+			}
 
-			if (($lastwall['item_network'] != "") AND ($status["source"] == 'web'))
+			if (($lastwall['item_network'] != "") AND ($status["source"] == 'web')) {
 				$status_info["source"] = network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']);
-			elseif (($lastwall['item_network'] != "") AND (network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']) != $status_info["source"]))
+			} elseif (($lastwall['item_network'] != "") AND (network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']) != $status_info["source"])) {
 				$status_info["source"] = trim($status_info["source"].' ('.network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']).')');
+			}
 
 			// "uid" and "self" are only needed for some internal stuff, so remove it from here
 			unset($status_info["user"]["uid"]);
@@ -1232,23 +1305,20 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		logger('status_info: '.print_r($status_info, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
-		if ($type == "raw")
-			return($status_info);
+		if ($type == "raw") {
+			return $status_info;
+		}
 
-		return  api_format_data("statuses", $type, array('status' => $status_info));
+		return api_format_data("statuses", $type, array('status' => $status_info));
 
 	}
 
-
-
-
-
 	/**
 	 * Returns extended information of a given user, specified by ID or screen name as per the required id parameter.
 	 * The author's most recent status will be returned inline.
 	 * http://developer.twitter.com/doc/get/users/show
 	 */
-	function api_users_show($type){
+	function api_users_show($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
@@ -1271,17 +1341,18 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				dbesc(normalise_link($user_info['url']))
 		);
 
-		if (count($lastwall)>0){
+		if (dbm::is_result($lastwall)) {
 			$lastwall = $lastwall[0];
 
 			$in_reply_to = api_in_reply_to($lastwall);
 
 			$converted = api_convert_item($lastwall);
 
-			if ($type == "xml")
+			if ($type == "xml") {
 				$geo = "georss:point";
-			else
+			} else {
 				$geo = "geo";
+			}
 
 			$user_info['status'] = array(
 				'text' => $converted["text"],
@@ -1297,20 +1368,25 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				'in_reply_to_screen_name' => $in_reply_to['screen_name'],
 				$geo => NULL,
 				'favorited' => $lastwall['starred'] ? true : false,
-				'statusnet_html'		=> $converted["html"],
+				'statusnet_html' => $converted["html"],
 				'statusnet_conversation_id'	=> $lastwall['parent'],
 			);
 
-			if (count($converted["attachments"]) > 0)
+			if (count($converted["attachments"]) > 0) {
 				$user_info["status"]["attachments"] = $converted["attachments"];
+			}
 
-			if (count($converted["entities"]) > 0)
+			if (count($converted["entities"]) > 0) {
 				$user_info["status"]["entities"] = $converted["entities"];
+			}
 
-			if (($lastwall['item_network'] != "") AND ($user_info["status"]["source"] == 'web'))
+			if (($lastwall['item_network'] != "") AND ($user_info["status"]["source"] == 'web')) {
 				$user_info["status"]["source"] = network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']);
-			if (($lastwall['item_network'] != "") AND (network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']) != $user_info["status"]["source"]))
-				$user_info["status"]["source"] = trim($user_info["status"]["source"].' ('.network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']).')');
+			}
+
+			if (($lastwall['item_network'] != "") AND (network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']) != $user_info["status"]["source"])) {
+				$user_info["status"]["source"] = trim($user_info["status"]["source"] . ' (' . network_to_name($lastwall['item_network'], $user_info['url']) . ')');
+			}
 
 		}
 
@@ -1318,34 +1394,38 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		unset($user_info["uid"]);
 		unset($user_info["self"]);
 
-		return  api_format_data("user", $type, array('user' => $user_info));
+		return api_format_data("user", $type, array('user' => $user_info));
 
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/users/show','api_users_show');
 
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
+	api_register_func('api/users/show','api_users_show');
 
 	function api_users_search($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		$page = (x($_REQUEST,'page')?$_REQUEST['page']-1:0);
+		$page = (x($_REQUEST, 'page') ? $_REQUEST['page'] - 1 : 0);
 
 		$userlist = array();
 
-		if (isset($_GET["q"])) {
+		if (x($_GET, 'q')) {
 			$r = q("SELECT id FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = 0 AND `name` = '%s'", dbesc($_GET["q"]));
-			if (!dbm::is_result($r))
+
+			if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$r = q("SELECT `id` FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = 0 AND `nick` = '%s'", dbesc($_GET["q"]));
+			}
 
 			if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$k = 0;
 				foreach ($r AS $user) {
 					$user_info = api_get_user($a, $user["id"], "json");
 
-					if ($type == "xml")
+					if ($type == "xml") {
 						$userlist[$k++.":user"] = $user_info;
-					else
+					} else {
 						$userlist[] = $user_info;
+					}
 				}
 				$userlist = array("users" => $userlist);
 			} else {
@@ -1357,6 +1437,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		return api_format_data("users", $type, $userlist);
 	}
 
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/users/search','api_users_search');
 
 	/**
@@ -1366,11 +1447,13 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * TODO: Optional parameters
 	 * TODO: Add reply info
 	 */
-	function api_statuses_home_timeline($type){
+	function api_statuses_home_timeline($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		unset($_REQUEST["user_id"]);
 		unset($_GET["user_id"]);
@@ -1382,24 +1465,29 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		// get last newtork messages
 
 		// params
-		$count = (x($_REQUEST,'count')?$_REQUEST['count']:20);
-		$page = (x($_REQUEST,'page')?$_REQUEST['page']-1:0);
-		if ($page<0) $page=0;
-		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST,'max_id')?$_REQUEST['max_id']:0);
-		//$since_id = 0;//$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		$exclude_replies = (x($_REQUEST,'exclude_replies')?1:0);
-		$conversation_id = (x($_REQUEST,'conversation_id')?$_REQUEST['conversation_id']:0);
+		$count = (x($_REQUEST, 'count') ? $_REQUEST['count'] : 20);
+		$page = (x($_REQUEST, 'page') ? $_REQUEST['page'] - 1 : 0);
+		if ($page < 0) {
+			$page = 0;
+		}
+		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id') ? $_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'max_id') ? $_REQUEST['max_id'] : 0);
+		//$since_id = 0;//$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		$exclude_replies = (x($_REQUEST, 'exclude_replies') ? 1 : 0);
+		$conversation_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'conversation_id') ? $_REQUEST['conversation_id'] : 0);
 
-		$start = $page*$count;
+		$start = $page * $count;
 
 		$sql_extra = '';
-		if ($max_id > 0)
-			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`id` <= '.intval($max_id);
-		if ($exclude_replies > 0)
+		if ($max_id > 0) {
+			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`id` <= ' . intval($max_id);
+		}
+		if ($exclude_replies > 0) {
 			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = `item`.`id`';
-		if ($conversation_id > 0)
-			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = '.intval($conversation_id);
+		}
+		if ($conversation_id > 0) {
+			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = ' . intval($conversation_id);
+		}
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `item`.`network` AS `item_network`,
 			`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`,
@@ -1419,63 +1507,73 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval($start),	intval($count)
 		);
 
-		$ret = api_format_items($r,$user_info, false, $type);
+		$ret = api_format_items($r, $user_info, false, $type);
 
 		// Set all posts from the query above to seen
 		$idarray = array();
-		foreach ($r AS $item)
+		foreach ($r AS $item) {
 			$idarray[] = intval($item["id"]);
+		}
 
 		$idlist = implode(",", $idarray);
 
 		if ($idlist != "") {
 			$unseen = q("SELECT `id` FROM `item` WHERE `unseen` AND `id` IN (%s)", $idlist);
 
-			if ($unseen)
+			if ($unseen) {
 				$r = q("UPDATE `item` SET `unseen` = 0 WHERE `unseen` AND `id` IN (%s)", $idlist);
+			}
 		}
 
 		$data = array('status' => $ret);
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 				$data = api_rss_extra($a, $data, $user_info);
 				break;
 		}
 
-		return  api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
+		return api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/home_timeline','api_statuses_home_timeline', true);
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/friends_timeline','api_statuses_home_timeline', true);
 
-	function api_statuses_public_timeline($type){
+	function api_statuses_public_timeline($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 		// get last newtork messages
 
-
 		// params
-		$count = (x($_REQUEST,'count')?$_REQUEST['count']:20);
-		$page = (x($_REQUEST,'page')?$_REQUEST['page']-1:0);
-		if ($page<0) $page=0;
-		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST,'max_id')?$_REQUEST['max_id']:0);
-		//$since_id = 0;//$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		$exclude_replies = (x($_REQUEST,'exclude_replies')?1:0);
-		$conversation_id = (x($_REQUEST,'conversation_id')?$_REQUEST['conversation_id']:0);
+		$count = (x($_REQUEST, 'count') ? $_REQUEST['count'] : 20);
+		$page = (x($_REQUEST, 'page') ? $_REQUEST['page'] -1 : 0);
+		if ($page < 0) {
+			$page = 0;
+		}
+		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id') ? $_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'max_id') ? $_REQUEST['max_id'] : 0);
+		//$since_id = 0;//$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		$exclude_replies = (x($_REQUEST, 'exclude_replies') ? 1 : 0);
+		$conversation_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'conversation_id') ? $_REQUEST['conversation_id'] : 0);
 
-		$start = $page*$count;
+		$start = $page * $count;
 
-		if ($max_id > 0)
-			$sql_extra = 'AND `item`.`id` <= '.intval($max_id);
-		if ($exclude_replies > 0)
+		if ($max_id > 0) {
+			$sql_extra = 'AND `item`.`id` <= ' . intval($max_id);
+		}
+		if ($exclude_replies > 0) {
 			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = `item`.`id`';
-		if ($conversation_id > 0)
-			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = '.intval($conversation_id);
+		}
+		if ($conversation_id > 0) {
+			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = ' . intval($conversation_id);
+		}
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `item`.`network` AS `item_network`,
 			`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`,
@@ -1499,51 +1597,57 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval($start),
 			intval($count));
 
-		$ret = api_format_items($r,$user_info, false, $type);
-
+		$ret = api_format_items($r, $user_info, false, $type);
 
 		$data = array('status' => $ret);
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 				$data = api_rss_extra($a, $data, $user_info);
 				break;
 		}
 
-		return  api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
+		return api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/public_timeline','api_statuses_public_timeline', true);
 
 	/**
-	 *
+	 * @TODO nothing to say?
 	 */
-	function api_statuses_show($type){
+	function api_statuses_show($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
 		// params
 		$id = intval($a->argv[3]);
 
-		if ($id == 0)
+		if ($id == 0) {
 			$id = intval($_REQUEST["id"]);
+		}
 
 		// Hotot workaround
-		if ($id == 0)
+		if ($id == 0) {
 			$id = intval($a->argv[4]);
+		}
 
-		logger('API: api_statuses_show: '.$id);
+		logger('API: api_statuses_show: ' . $id);
 
-		$conversation = (x($_REQUEST,'conversation')?1:0);
+		$conversation = (x($_REQUEST, 'conversation') ? 1 : 0);
 
 		$sql_extra = '';
-		if ($conversation)
+		if ($conversation) {
 			$sql_extra .= " AND `item`.`parent` = %d ORDER BY `id` ASC ";
-		else
+		} else {
 			$sql_extra .= " AND `item`.`id` = %d";
+		}
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `item`.`network` AS `item_network`,
 			`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`,
@@ -1560,7 +1664,8 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval($id)
 		);
 
-		if (!$r) {
+		/// @TODO How about copying this to above methods which don't check $r ?
+		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			throw new BadRequestException("There is no status with this id.");
 		}
 
@@ -1571,50 +1676,59 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			return api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
 		} else {
 			$data = array('status' => $ret[0]);
-			return  api_format_data("status", $type, $data);
+			return api_format_data("status", $type, $data);
 		}
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/show','api_statuses_show', true);
 
-
 	/**
-	 *
+	 * @TODO nothing to say?
 	 */
-	function api_conversation_show($type){
+	function api_conversation_show($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
 		// params
 		$id = intval($a->argv[3]);
-		$count = (x($_REQUEST,'count')?$_REQUEST['count']:20);
-		$page = (x($_REQUEST,'page')?$_REQUEST['page']-1:0);
-		if ($page<0) $page=0;
-		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST,'max_id')?$_REQUEST['max_id']:0);
+		$count = (x($_REQUEST, 'count') ? $_REQUEST['count'] : 20);
+		$page = (x($_REQUEST, 'page') ? $_REQUEST['page'] - 1 : 0);
+		if ($page < 0) {
+			$page = 0;
+		}
+		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id') ? $_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'max_id') ? $_REQUEST['max_id'] : 0);
 
 		$start = $page*$count;
 
-		if ($id == 0)
+		if ($id == 0) {
 			$id = intval($_REQUEST["id"]);
+		}
 
 		// Hotot workaround
-		if ($id == 0)
+		if ($id == 0) {
 			$id = intval($a->argv[4]);
+		}
 
 		logger('API: api_conversation_show: '.$id);
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `parent` FROM `item` WHERE `id` = %d", intval($id));
-		if ($r)
+		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			$id = $r[0]["parent"];
+		}
 
 		$sql_extra = '';
 
-		if ($max_id > 0)
-			$sql_extra = ' AND `item`.`id` <= '.intval($max_id);
+		if ($max_id > 0) {
+			$sql_extra = ' AND `item`.`id` <= ' . intval($max_id);
+		}
 
 		// Not sure why this query was so complicated. We should keep it here for a while,
 		// just to make sure that we really don't need it.
@@ -1639,39 +1753,45 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval($start), intval($count)
 		);
 
-		if (!$r)
-			throw new BadRequestException("There is no conversation with this id.");
+		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
+			throw new BadRequestException("There is no status with this id.");
+		}
 
-		$ret = api_format_items($r,$user_info, false, $type);
+		$ret = api_format_items($r, $user_info, false, $type);
 
 		$data = array('status' => $ret);
 		return api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/conversation/show','api_conversation_show', true);
 	api_register_func('api/statusnet/conversation','api_conversation_show', true);
 
-
 	/**
-	 *
+	 * @TODO nothing to say?
 	 */
-	function api_statuses_repeat($type){
+	function api_statuses_repeat($type) {
 		global $called_api;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
 		// params
 		$id = intval($a->argv[3]);
 
-		if ($id == 0)
+		if ($id == 0) {
 			$id = intval($_REQUEST["id"]);
+		}
 
 		// Hotot workaround
-		if ($id == 0)
+		if ($id == 0) {
 			$id = intval($a->argv[4]);
+		}
 
 		logger('API: api_statuses_repeat: '.$id);
 
@@ -1690,7 +1810,8 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval($id)
 		);
 
-		if ($r[0]['body'] != "") {
+		/// @TODO other style than above functions!
+		if (dbm::is_result($r) && $r[0]['body'] != "") {
 			if (strpos($r[0]['body'], "[/share]") !== false) {
 				$pos = strpos($r[0]['body'], "[share");
 				$post = substr($r[0]['body'], $pos);
@@ -1705,39 +1826,47 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			$_REQUEST['type'] = 'wall';
 			$_REQUEST['api_source'] = true;
 
-			if (!x($_REQUEST, "source"))
+			if (!x($_REQUEST, "source")) {
 				$_REQUEST["source"] = api_source();
+			}
 
 			item_post($a);
-		} else
+		} else {
 			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		// this should output the last post (the one we just posted).
 		$called_api = null;
-		return(api_status_show($type));
+		return api_status_show($type);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/retweet','api_statuses_repeat', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 
 	/**
-	 *
+	 * @TODO nothing to say?
 	 */
-	function api_statuses_destroy($type){
+	function api_statuses_destroy($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
 		// params
 		$id = intval($a->argv[3]);
 
-		if ($id == 0)
+		if ($id == 0) {
 			$id = intval($_REQUEST["id"]);
+		}
 
 		// Hotot workaround
-		if ($id == 0)
+		if ($id == 0) {
 			$id = intval($a->argv[4]);
+		}
 
 		logger('API: api_statuses_destroy: '.$id);
 
@@ -1745,20 +1874,23 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		drop_item($id, false);
 
-		return($ret);
+		return $ret;
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/destroy','api_statuses_destroy', true, API_METHOD_DELETE);
 
 	/**
-	 *
+	 * @TODO Nothing more than an URL to say?
 	 * http://developer.twitter.com/doc/get/statuses/mentions
-	 *
 	 */
-	function api_statuses_mentions($type){
+	function api_statuses_mentions($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		unset($_REQUEST["user_id"]);
 		unset($_GET["user_id"]);
@@ -1771,24 +1903,27 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 
 		// params
-		$count = (x($_REQUEST,'count')?$_REQUEST['count']:20);
-		$page = (x($_REQUEST,'page')?$_REQUEST['page']-1:0);
-		if ($page<0) $page=0;
-		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST,'max_id')?$_REQUEST['max_id']:0);
-		//$since_id = 0;//$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
+		$count = (x($_REQUEST, 'count') ? $_REQUEST['count'] : 20);
+		$page = (x($_REQUEST, 'page') ? $_REQUEST['page'] -1 : 0);
+		if ($page < 0) {
+			$page = 0;
+		}
+		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id') ? $_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'max_id') ? $_REQUEST['max_id'] : 0);
+		//$since_id = 0;//$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
 
-		$start = $page*$count;
+		$start = $page * $count;
 
 		// Ugly code - should be changed
 		$myurl = App::get_baseurl() . '/profile/'. $a->user['nickname'];
-		$myurl = substr($myurl,strpos($myurl,'://')+3);
+		$myurl = substr($myurl,strpos($myurl, '://') + 3);
 		//$myurl = str_replace(array('www.','.'),array('','\\.'),$myurl);
-		$myurl = str_replace('www.','',$myurl);
-		$diasp_url = str_replace('/profile/','/u/',$myurl);
+		$myurl = str_replace('www.', '', $myurl);
+		$diasp_url = str_replace('/profile/', '/u/', $myurl);
 
-		if ($max_id > 0)
-			$sql_extra = ' AND `item`.`id` <= '.intval($max_id);
+		if ($max_id > 0) {
+			$sql_extra = ' AND `item`.`id` <= ' . intval($max_id);
+		}
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `item`.`network` AS `item_network`,
 			`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`,
@@ -1813,28 +1948,30 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval($start),	intval($count)
 		);
 
-		$ret = api_format_items($r,$user_info, false, $type);
-
+		$ret = api_format_items($r, $user_info, false, $type);
 
 		$data = array('status' => $ret);
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 				$data = api_rss_extra($a, $data, $user_info);
 				break;
 		}
 
-		return  api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
+		return api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/mentions','api_statuses_mentions', true);
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/replies','api_statuses_mentions', true);
 
-
-	function api_statuses_user_timeline($type){
+	function api_statuses_user_timeline($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 		// get last network messages
@@ -1845,24 +1982,29 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			   LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 		// params
-		$count = (x($_REQUEST,'count')?$_REQUEST['count']:20);
-		$page = (x($_REQUEST,'page')?$_REQUEST['page']-1:0);
-		if ($page<0) $page=0;
-		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		//$since_id = 0;//$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		$exclude_replies = (x($_REQUEST,'exclude_replies')?1:0);
-		$conversation_id = (x($_REQUEST,'conversation_id')?$_REQUEST['conversation_id']:0);
+		$count = (x($_REQUEST, 'count') ? $_REQUEST['count'] : 20);
+		$page = (x($_REQUEST, 'page') ? $_REQUEST['page'] -1 : 0);
+		if ($page < 0) {
+			$page = 0;
+		}
+		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id') ? $_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		//$since_id = 0;//$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		$exclude_replies = (x($_REQUEST, 'exclude_replies') ? 1 : 0);
+		$conversation_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'conversation_id') ? $_REQUEST['conversation_id'] : 0);
 
-		$start = $page*$count;
+		$start = $page * $count;
 
 		$sql_extra = '';
-		if ($user_info['self']==1)
+		if ($user_info['self'] == 1) {
 			$sql_extra .= " AND `item`.`wall` = 1 ";
+		}
 
-		if ($exclude_replies > 0)
+		if ($exclude_replies > 0) {
 			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = `item`.`id`';
-		if ($conversation_id > 0)
-			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = '.intval($conversation_id);
+		}
+		if ($conversation_id > 0) {
+			$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`parent` = ' . intval($conversation_id);
+		}
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `item`.`network` AS `item_network`,
 			`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`,
@@ -1884,19 +2026,21 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval($start),	intval($count)
 		);
 
-		$ret = api_format_items($r,$user_info, true, $type);
+		$ret = api_format_items($r, $user_info, true, $type);
 
 		$data = array('status' => $ret);
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 				$data = api_rss_extra($a, $data, $user_info);
+				break;
 		}
 
-		return  api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
+		return api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/statuses/user_timeline','api_statuses_user_timeline', true);
 
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
+	api_register_func('api/statuses/user_timeline','api_statuses_user_timeline', true);
 
 	/**
 	 * Star/unstar an item
@@ -1904,49 +2048,59 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 *
 	 * api v1 : https://web.archive.org/web/20131019055350/https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/post/favorites/create/%3Aid
 	 */
-	function api_favorites_create_destroy($type){
+	function api_favorites_create_destroy($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		// for versioned api.
 		/// @TODO We need a better global soluton
-		$action_argv_id=2;
-		if ($a->argv[1]=="1.1") $action_argv_id=3;
+		$action_argv_id = 2;
+		if ($a->argv[1] == "1.1") {
+			$action_argv_id = 3;
+		}
 
-		if ($a->argc<=$action_argv_id) throw new BadRequestException("Invalid request.");
-		$action = str_replace(".".$type,"",$a->argv[$action_argv_id]);
-		if ($a->argc==$action_argv_id+2) {
-			$itemid = intval($a->argv[$action_argv_id+1]);
+		if ($a->argc <= $action_argv_id) {
+			throw new BadRequestException("Invalid request.");
+		}
+		$action = str_replace("." . $type, "", $a->argv[$action_argv_id]);
+		if ($a->argc == $action_argv_id + 2) {
+			$itemid = intval($a->argv[$action_argv_id + 1]);
 		} else {
+			///  @TODO use x() to check if _REQUEST contains 'id'
 			$itemid = intval($_REQUEST['id']);
 		}
 
-		$item = q("SELECT * FROM item WHERE id=%d AND uid=%d",
+		$item = q("SELECT * FROM `item` WHERE `id`=%d AND `uid`=%d LIMIT 1",
 				$itemid, api_user());
 
-		if ($item===false || count($item)==0)
+		if (!dbm::is_result($item) || count($item) == 0) {
 			throw new BadRequestException("Invalid item.");
+		}
 
-		switch($action){
+		switch ($action) {
 			case "create":
-				$item[0]['starred']=1;
+				$item[0]['starred'] = 1;
 				break;
 			case "destroy":
-				$item[0]['starred']=0;
+				$item[0]['starred'] = 0;
 				break;
 			default:
 				throw new BadRequestException("Invalid action ".$action);
 		}
+
 		$r = q("UPDATE item SET starred=%d WHERE id=%d AND uid=%d",
 				$item[0]['starred'], $itemid, api_user());
 
 		q("UPDATE thread SET starred=%d WHERE iid=%d AND uid=%d",
 			$item[0]['starred'], $itemid, api_user());
 
-		if ($r===false)
-			throw InternalServerErrorException("DB error");
+		if ($r === false) {
+			throw new InternalServerErrorException("DB error");
+		}
 
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
@@ -1954,7 +2108,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		$ret = $rets[0];
 
 		$data = array('status' => $ret);
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 				$data = api_rss_extra($a, $data, $user_info);
@@ -1962,17 +2116,21 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		return api_format_data("status", $type, $data);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/favorites/create', 'api_favorites_create_destroy', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 	api_register_func('api/favorites/destroy', 'api_favorites_create_destroy', true, API_METHOD_DELETE);
 
-	function api_favorites($type){
+	function api_favorites($type) {
 		global $called_api;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
-		$called_api= array();
+		$called_api = array();
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
@@ -1980,22 +2138,25 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		// return favorites only for self
 		logger('api_favorites: self:' . $user_info['self']);
 
-		if ($user_info['self']==0) {
+		if ($user_info['self'] == 0) {
 			$ret = array();
 		} else {
 			$sql_extra = "";
 
 			// params
-			$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-			$max_id = (x($_REQUEST,'max_id')?$_REQUEST['max_id']:0);
-			$count = (x($_GET,'count')?$_GET['count']:20);
-			$page = (x($_REQUEST,'page')?$_REQUEST['page']-1:0);
-			if ($page<0) $page=0;
+			$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id') ? $_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+			$max_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'max_id') ? $_REQUEST['max_id'] : 0);
+			$count = (x($_GET, 'count') ? $_GET['count'] : 20);
+			$page = (x($_REQUEST, 'page') ? $_REQUEST['page'] -1 : 0);
+			if ($page < 0) {
+				$page = 0;
+			}
 
 			$start = $page*$count;
 
-			if ($max_id > 0)
-				$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`id` <= '.intval($max_id);
+			if ($max_id > 0) {
+				$sql_extra .= ' AND `item`.`id` <= ' . intval($max_id);
+			}
 
 			$r = q("SELECT `item`.*, `item`.`id` AS `item_id`, `item`.`network` AS `item_network`,
 				`contact`.`name`, `contact`.`photo`, `contact`.`url`, `contact`.`rel`,
@@ -2020,14 +2181,16 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		}
 
 		$data = array('status' => $ret);
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 				$data = api_rss_extra($a, $data, $user_info);
 		}
 
-		return  api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
+		return api_format_data("statuses", $type, $data);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/favorites','api_favorites', true);
 
 	function api_format_messages($item, $recipient, $sender) {
@@ -2042,9 +2205,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				'recipient_screen_name' => $recipient['screen_name'],
 				'sender'                => $sender,
 				'recipient'             => $recipient,
-				'title'			=> "",
-				'friendica_seen'	=> $item['seen'],
-				'friendica_parent_uri'	=> $item['parent-uri'],
+				'title'                 => "",
+				'friendica_seen'        => $item['seen'],
+				'friendica_parent_uri'  => $item['parent-uri'],
 		);
 
 		// "uid" and "self" are only needed for some internal stuff, so remove it from here
@@ -2056,18 +2219,16 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		//don't send title to regular StatusNET requests to avoid confusing these apps
 		if (x($_GET, 'getText')) {
 			$ret['title'] = $item['title'] ;
-			if ($_GET["getText"] == "html") {
+			if ($_GET['getText'] == 'html') {
 				$ret['text'] = bbcode($item['body'], false, false);
-			}
-			elseif ($_GET["getText"] == "plain") {
+			} elseif ($_GET['getText'] == 'plain') {
 				//$ret['text'] = html2plain(bbcode($item['body'], false, false, true), 0);
 				$ret['text'] = trim(html2plain(bbcode(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, false, 2, true), 0));
 			}
+		} else {
+			$ret['text'] = $item['title'] . "\n" . html2plain(bbcode(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, false, 2, true), 0);
 		}
-		else {
-			$ret['text'] = $item['title']."\n".html2plain(bbcode(api_clean_plain_items($item['body']), false, false, 2, true), 0);
-		}
-		if (isset($_GET["getUserObjects"]) && $_GET["getUserObjects"] == "false") {
+		if (x($_GET, 'getUserObjects') && $_GET['getUserObjects'] == 'false') {
 			unset($ret['sender']);
 			unset($ret['recipient']);
 		}
@@ -2088,13 +2249,15 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$statustitle = trim($item['title']);
 
-		if (($statustitle != '') and (strpos($statusbody, $statustitle) !== false))
+		if (($statustitle != '') and (strpos($statusbody, $statustitle) !== false)) {
 			$statustext = trim($statusbody);
-		else
+		} else {
 			$statustext = trim($statustitle."\n\n".$statusbody);
+		}
 
-		if (($item["network"] == NETWORK_FEED) and (strlen($statustext)> 1000))
+		if (($item["network"] == NETWORK_FEED) and (strlen($statustext)> 1000)) {
 			$statustext = substr($statustext, 0, 1000)."... \n".$item["plink"];
+		}
 
 		$statushtml = trim(bbcode($body, false, false));
 
@@ -2108,8 +2271,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				"\n<h5>", "</h5>\n", "\n<h6>", "</h6>\n");
 		$statushtml = str_replace($search, $replace, $statushtml);
 
-		if ($item['title'] != "")
-			$statushtml = "<h4>".bbcode($item['title'])."</h4>\n".$statushtml;
+		if ($item['title'] != "") {
+			$statushtml = "<h4>" . bbcode($item['title']) . "</h4>\n" . $statushtml;
+		}
 
 		$entities = api_get_entitities($statustext, $body);
 
@@ -2129,21 +2293,25 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
 		$ret = preg_match_all("/\[img\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/img\]/ism", $text, $images);
 
-		if (!$ret)
+		if (!$ret) {
 			return false;
+		}
 
 		$attachments = array();
 
 		foreach ($images[1] AS $image) {
 			$imagedata = get_photo_info($image);
 
-			if ($imagedata)
+			if ($imagedata) {
 				$attachments[] = array("url" => $image, "mimetype" => $imagedata["mime"], "size" => $imagedata["size"]);
+			}
 		}
 
-		if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "AndStatus"))
-			foreach ($images[0] AS $orig)
+		if (strstr($_SERVER['HTTP_USER_AGENT'], "AndStatus")) {
+			foreach ($images[0] AS $orig) {
 				$body = str_replace($orig, "", $body);
+			}
+		}
 
 		return $attachments;
 	}
@@ -2156,7 +2324,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		$include_entities = strtolower(x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:"false");
+		$include_entities = strtolower(x($_REQUEST, 'include_entities') ? $_REQUEST['include_entities'] : "false");
 
 		if ($include_entities != "true") {
 
@@ -2202,11 +2370,12 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		preg_match_all("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", $bbcode, $urls);
 
 		$ordered_urls = array();
-		foreach ($urls[1] AS $id=>$url) {
+		foreach ($urls[1] AS $id => $url) {
 			//$start = strpos($text, $url, $offset);
 			$start = iconv_strpos($text, $url, 0, "UTF-8");
-			if (!($start === false))
+			if (!($start === false)) {
 				$ordered_urls[$start] = array("url" => $url, "title" => $urls[2][$id]);
+			}
 		}
 
 		ksort($ordered_urls);
@@ -2300,9 +2469,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			}
 		}
 
-		return($entities);
+		return $entities;
 	}
-	function api_format_items_embeded_images(&$item, $text){
+	function api_format_items_embeded_images(&$item, $text) {
 		$text = preg_replace_callback(
 				"|data:image/([^;]+)[^=]+=*|m",
 				function($match) use ($item) {
@@ -2356,7 +2525,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			'dislike' => array(),
 			'attendyes' => array(),
 			'attendno' => array(),
-			'attendmaybe' => array()
+			'attendmaybe' => array(),
 		);
 
 		$items = q('SELECT * FROM item
@@ -2364,13 +2533,13 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 					intval($item['uid']),
 					dbesc($item['uri']));
 
-		foreach ($items as $i){
+		foreach ($items as $i) {
 			// not used as result should be structured like other user data
 			//builtin_activity_puller($i, $activities);
 
 			// get user data and add it to the array of the activity
 			$user = api_get_user($a, $i['author-link']);
-			switch($i['verb']) {
+			switch ($i['verb']) {
 				case ACTIVITY_LIKE:
 					$activities['like'][] = $user;
 					break;
@@ -2472,25 +2641,27 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		$ret = Array();
+		$ret = array();
 
-		foreach($r as $item) {
+		foreach ($r as $item) {
 
 			localize_item($item);
-			list($status_user, $owner_user) = api_item_get_user($a,$item);
+			list($status_user, $owner_user) = api_item_get_user($a, $item);
 
 			// Look if the posts are matching if they should be filtered by user id
-			if ($filter_user AND ($status_user["id"] != $user_info["id"]))
+			if ($filter_user AND ($status_user["id"] != $user_info["id"])) {
 				continue;
+			}
 
 			$in_reply_to = api_in_reply_to($item);
 
 			$converted = api_convert_item($item);
 
-			if ($type == "xml")
+			if ($type == "xml") {
 				$geo = "georss:point";
-			else
+			} else {
 				$geo = "geo";
+			}
 
 			$status = array(
 				'text'		=> $converted["text"],
@@ -2514,16 +2685,19 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				'friendica_activities' => api_format_items_activities($item, $type),
 			);
 
-			if (count($converted["attachments"]) > 0)
+			if (count($converted["attachments"]) > 0) {
 				$status["attachments"] = $converted["attachments"];
+			}
 
-			if (count($converted["entities"]) > 0)
+			if (count($converted["entities"]) > 0) {
 				$status["entities"] = $converted["entities"];
+			}
 
-			if (($item['item_network'] != "") AND ($status["source"] == 'web'))
+			if (($item['item_network'] != "") AND ($status["source"] == 'web')) {
 				$status["source"] = network_to_name($item['item_network'], $user_info['url']);
-			else if (($item['item_network'] != "") AND (network_to_name($item['item_network'], $user_info['url']) != $status["source"]))
+			} elseif (($item['item_network'] != "") AND (network_to_name($item['item_network'], $user_info['url']) != $status["source"])) {
 				$status["source"] = trim($status["source"].' ('.network_to_name($item['item_network'], $user_info['url']).')');
+			}
 
 
 			// Retweets are only valid for top postings
@@ -2538,7 +2712,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				if ($retweeted_item !== false) {
 					$retweeted_status = $status;
 					try {
-						$retweeted_status["user"] = api_get_user($a,$retweeted_item["author-link"]);
+						$retweeted_status["user"] = api_get_user($a, $retweeted_item["author-link"]);
 					} catch( BadRequestException $e ) {
 						// user not found. should be found?
 						/// @todo check if the user should be always found
@@ -2575,67 +2749,81 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		return $ret;
 	}
 
-
 	function api_account_rate_limit_status($type) {
 
-		if ($type == "xml")
+		if ($type == "xml") {
 			$hash = array(
-					'remaining-hits' => (string) 150,
+					'remaining-hits' => '150',
 					'@attributes' => array("type" => "integer"),
-					'hourly-limit' => (string) 150,
+					'hourly-limit' => '150',
 					'@attributes2' => array("type" => "integer"),
-					'reset-time' => datetime_convert('UTC','UTC','now + 1 hour',ATOM_TIME),
+					'reset-time' => datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC','now + 1 hour',ATOM_TIME),
 					'@attributes3' => array("type" => "datetime"),
 					'reset_time_in_seconds' => strtotime('now + 1 hour'),
 					'@attributes4' => array("type" => "integer"),
 				);
-		else
+		} else {
 			$hash = array(
 					'reset_time_in_seconds' => strtotime('now + 1 hour'),
-					'remaining_hits' => (string) 150,
-					'hourly_limit' => (string) 150,
-					'reset_time' => api_date(datetime_convert('UTC','UTC','now + 1 hour',ATOM_TIME)),
+					'remaining_hits' => '150',
+					'hourly_limit' => '150',
+					'reset_time' => api_date(datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC','now + 1 hour',ATOM_TIME)),
 				);
+		}
 
 		return api_format_data('hash', $type, array('hash' => $hash));
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/account/rate_limit_status','api_account_rate_limit_status',true);
 
 	function api_help_test($type) {
-		if ($type == 'xml')
+		if ($type == 'xml') {
 			$ok = "true";
-		else
+		} else {
 			$ok = "ok";
+		}
 
 		return api_format_data('ok', $type, array("ok" => $ok));
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/help/test','api_help_test',false);
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
+	api_register_func('api/help/test','api_help_test', false);
 
 	function api_lists($type) {
 		$ret = array();
+		/// @TODO $ret is not filled here?
 		return api_format_data('lists', $type, array("lists_list" => $ret));
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/lists','api_lists',true);
 
 	function api_lists_list($type) {
 		$ret = array();
+		/// @TODO $ret is not filled here?
 		return api_format_data('lists', $type, array("lists_list" => $ret));
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/lists/list','api_lists_list',true);
 
 	/**
-	 *  https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/friends
-	 *  This function is deprecated by Twitter
-	 *  returns: json, xml
-	 **/
+	 * https://dev.twitter.com/docs/api/1/get/statuses/friends
+	 * This function is deprecated by Twitter
+	 * returns: json, xml
+	 */
 	function api_statuses_f($type, $qtype) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
+
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
-		if (x($_GET,'cursor') && $_GET['cursor']=='undefined'){
+		if (x($_GET, 'cursor') && $_GET['cursor']=='undefined') {
 			/* this is to stop Hotot to load friends multiple times
 			*  I'm not sure if I'm missing return something or
 			*  is a bug in hotot. Workaround, meantime
@@ -2646,51 +2834,58 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			return false;
 		}
 
-		if($qtype == 'friends')
+		if ($qtype == 'friends') {
 			$sql_extra = sprintf(" AND ( `rel` = %d OR `rel` = %d ) ", intval(CONTACT_IS_SHARING), intval(CONTACT_IS_FRIEND));
-		if($qtype == 'followers')
+		}
+		if ($qtype == 'followers') {
 			$sql_extra = sprintf(" AND ( `rel` = %d OR `rel` = %d ) ", intval(CONTACT_IS_FOLLOWER), intval(CONTACT_IS_FRIEND));
+		}
 
 		// friends and followers only for self
-		if ($user_info['self'] == 0)
+		if ($user_info['self'] == 0) {
 			$sql_extra = " AND false ";
+		}
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `nurl` FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = %d AND NOT `self` AND (NOT `blocked` OR `pending`) $sql_extra",
 			intval(api_user())
 		);
 
 		$ret = array();
-		foreach($r as $cid){
+		foreach ($r as $cid) {
 			$user = api_get_user($a, $cid['nurl']);
 			// "uid" and "self" are only needed for some internal stuff, so remove it from here
 			unset($user["uid"]);
 			unset($user["self"]);
 
-			if ($user)
+			if ($user) {
 				$ret[] = $user;
+			}
 		}
 
 		return array('user' => $ret);
 
 	}
-	function api_statuses_friends($type){
+
+	function api_statuses_friends($type) {
 		$data =  api_statuses_f($type, "friends");
-		if ($data===false) return false;
-		return  api_format_data("users", $type, $data);
+		if ($data === false) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		return api_format_data("users", $type, $data);
 	}
-	function api_statuses_followers($type){
+
+	function api_statuses_followers($type) {
 		$data = api_statuses_f($type, "followers");
-		if ($data===false) return false;
-		return  api_format_data("users", $type, $data);
+		if ($data === false) {
+			return false;
+		}
+		return api_format_data("users", $type, $data);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/friends','api_statuses_friends',true);
 	api_register_func('api/statuses/followers','api_statuses_followers',true);
 
-
-
-
-
-
 	function api_statusnet_config($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
@@ -2702,8 +2897,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		$closed = (($a->config['register_policy'] == REGISTER_CLOSED) ? 'true' : 'false');
 		$private = ((Config::get('system', 'block_public')) ? 'true' : 'false');
 		$textlimit = (string) (($a->config['max_import_size']) ? $a->config['max_import_size'] : 200000);
-		if($a->config['api_import_size'])
+		if ($a->config['api_import_size']) {
 			$texlimit = string($a->config['api_import_size']);
+		}
 		$ssl = ((Config::get('system', 'have_ssl')) ? 'true' : 'false');
 		$sslserver = (($ssl === 'true') ? str_replace('http:','https:',App::get_baseurl()) : '');
 
@@ -2725,8 +2921,10 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		return api_format_data('config', $type, array('config' => $config));
 
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/gnusocial/config','api_statusnet_config',false);
-	api_register_func('api/statusnet/config','api_statusnet_config',false);
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
+	api_register_func('api/gnusocial/config','api_statusnet_config', false);
+	api_register_func('api/statusnet/config','api_statusnet_config', false);
 
 	function api_statusnet_version($type) {
 		// liar
@@ -2734,8 +2932,10 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		return api_format_data('version', $type, array('version' => $fake_statusnet_version));
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/gnusocial/version','api_statusnet_version',false);
-	api_register_func('api/statusnet/version','api_statusnet_version',false);
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
+	api_register_func('api/gnusocial/version','api_statusnet_version', false);
+	api_register_func('api/statusnet/version','api_statusnet_version', false);
 
 	/**
 	 * @todo use api_format_data() to return data
@@ -2744,19 +2944,24 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if(! api_user()) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (! api_user()) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 
-		if($qtype == 'friends')
+		if ($qtype == 'friends') {
 			$sql_extra = sprintf(" AND ( `rel` = %d OR `rel` = %d ) ", intval(CONTACT_IS_SHARING), intval(CONTACT_IS_FRIEND));
-		if($qtype == 'followers')
+		}
+		if ($qtype == 'followers') {
 			$sql_extra = sprintf(" AND ( `rel` = %d OR `rel` = %d ) ", intval(CONTACT_IS_FOLLOWER), intval(CONTACT_IS_FRIEND));
+		}
 
-		if (!$user_info["self"])
+		if (!$user_info["self"]) {
 			$sql_extra = " AND false ";
+		}
 
-		$stringify_ids = (x($_REQUEST,'stringify_ids')?$_REQUEST['stringify_ids']:false);
+		$stringify_ids = (x($_REQUEST, 'stringify_ids') ? $_REQUEST['stringify_ids'] : false);
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `pcontact`.`id` FROM `contact`
 				INNER JOIN `contact` AS `pcontact` ON `contact`.`nurl` = `pcontact`.`nurl` AND `pcontact`.`uid` = 0
@@ -2764,15 +2969,18 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval(api_user())
 		);
 
-		if (!dbm::is_result($r))
+		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			return;
+		}
 
 		$ids = array();
-		foreach($r as $rr)
-			if ($stringify_ids)
+		foreach ($r as $rr) {
+			if ($stringify_ids) {
 				$ids[] = $rr['id'];
-			else
+			} else {
 				$ids[] = intval($rr['id']);
+			}
+		}
 
 		return api_format_data("ids", $type, array('id' => $ids));
 	}
@@ -2780,18 +2988,20 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	function api_friends_ids($type) {
 		return api_ff_ids($type,'friends');
 	}
+
 	function api_followers_ids($type) {
 		return api_ff_ids($type,'followers');
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/friends/ids','api_friends_ids',true);
 	api_register_func('api/followers/ids','api_followers_ids',true);
 
-
 	function api_direct_messages_new($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
 
 		if (!x($_POST, "text") OR (!x($_POST,"screen_name") AND !x($_POST,"user_id"))) return;
 
@@ -2811,45 +3021,43 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$replyto = '';
 		$sub     = '';
-		if (x($_REQUEST,'replyto')) {
+		if (x($_REQUEST, 'replyto')) {
 			$r = q('SELECT `parent-uri`, `title` FROM `mail` WHERE `uid`=%d AND `id`=%d',
 					intval(api_user()),
 					intval($_REQUEST['replyto']));
 			$replyto = $r[0]['parent-uri'];
 			$sub     = $r[0]['title'];
-		}
-		else {
-			if (x($_REQUEST,'title')) {
+		} else {
+			if (x($_REQUEST, 'title')) {
 				$sub = $_REQUEST['title'];
-			}
-			else {
-				$sub = ((strlen($_POST['text'])>10)?substr($_POST['text'],0,10)."...":$_POST['text']);
+			} else {
+				$sub = ((strlen($_POST['text'])>10) ? substr($_POST['text'],0,10)."...":$_POST['text']);
 			}
 		}
 
 		$id = send_message($recipient['cid'], $_POST['text'], $sub, $replyto);
 
-		if ($id>-1) {
+		if ($id > -1) {
 			$r = q("SELECT * FROM `mail` WHERE id=%d", intval($id));
 			$ret = api_format_messages($r[0], $recipient, $sender);
-
 		} else {
 			$ret = array("error"=>$id);
 		}
 
-		$data = Array('direct_message'=>$ret);
+		$data = array('direct_message'=>$ret);
 
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 				$data = api_rss_extra($a, $data, $user_info);
 		}
 
-		return  api_format_data("direct-messages", $type, $data);
+		return api_format_data("direct-messages", $type, $data);
 
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/direct_messages/new','api_direct_messages_new',true, API_METHOD_POST);
 
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
+	api_register_func('api/direct_messages/new','api_direct_messages_new',true, API_METHOD_POST);
 
 	/**
 	 * @brief delete a direct_message from mail table through api
@@ -2857,31 +3065,33 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @param string $type Known types are 'atom', 'rss', 'xml' and 'json'
 	 * @return string
 	 */
-	function api_direct_messages_destroy($type){
+	function api_direct_messages_destroy($type) {
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		// params
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 		//required
-		$id = (x($_REQUEST,'id') ? $_REQUEST['id'] : 0);
+		$id = (x($_REQUEST, 'id') ? $_REQUEST['id'] : 0);
 		// optional
 		$parenturi = (x($_REQUEST, 'friendica_parenturi') ? $_REQUEST['friendica_parenturi'] : "");
-		$verbose = (x($_GET,'friendica_verbose')?strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']):"false");
+		$verbose = (x($_GET, 'friendica_verbose') ? strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']) : "false");
 		/// @todo optional parameter 'include_entities' from Twitter API not yet implemented
 
 		$uid = $user_info['uid'];
 		// error if no id or parenturi specified (for clients posting parent-uri as well)
-		if ($verbose == "true") {
-			if ($id == 0 || $parenturi == "") {
-				$answer = array('result' => 'error', 'message' => 'message id or parenturi not specified');
-				return api_format_data("direct_messages_delete", $type, array('$result' => $answer));
-			}
+		if ($verbose == "true" && ($id == 0 || $parenturi == "")) {
+			$answer = array('result' => 'error', 'message' => 'message id or parenturi not specified');
+			return api_format_data("direct_messages_delete", $type, array('$result' => $answer));
 		}
 
 		// BadRequestException if no id specified (for clients using Twitter API)
-		if ($id == 0) throw new BadRequestException('Message id not specified');
+		if ($id == 0) {
+			throw new BadRequestException('Message id not specified');
+		}
 
 		// add parent-uri to sql command if specified by calling app
 		$sql_extra = ($parenturi != "" ? " AND `parent-uri` = '" . dbesc($parenturi) . "'" : "");
@@ -2911,8 +3121,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				// return success
 				$answer = array('result' => 'ok', 'message' => 'message deleted');
 				return api_format_data("direct_message_delete", $type, array('$result' => $answer));
-			}
-			else {
+			} else {
 				$answer = array('result' => 'error', 'message' => 'unknown error');
 				return api_format_data("direct_messages_delete", $type, array('$result' => $answer));
 			}
@@ -2920,25 +3129,30 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		/// @todo return JSON data like Twitter API not yet implemented
 
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/direct_messages/destroy', 'api_direct_messages_destroy', true, API_METHOD_DELETE);
 
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
+	api_register_func('api/direct_messages/destroy', 'api_direct_messages_destroy', true, API_METHOD_DELETE);
 
 	function api_direct_messages_box($type, $box, $verbose) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		// params
-		$count = (x($_GET,'count')?$_GET['count']:20);
-		$page = (x($_REQUEST,'page')?$_REQUEST['page']-1:0);
-		if ($page<0) $page=0;
+		$count = (x($_GET, 'count') ? $_GET['count'] : 20);
+		$page = (x($_REQUEST, 'page') ? $_REQUEST['page'] -1 : 0);
+		if ($page < 0) {
+			$page = 0;
+		}
 
-		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST,'since_id')?$_REQUEST['since_id']:0);
-		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST,'max_id')?$_REQUEST['max_id']:0);
+		$since_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'since_id') ? $_REQUEST['since_id'] : 0);
+		$max_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'max_id') ? $_REQUEST['max_id'] : 0);
 
-		$user_id = (x($_REQUEST,'user_id')?$_REQUEST['user_id']:"");
-		$screen_name = (x($_REQUEST,'screen_name')?$_REQUEST['screen_name']:"");
+		$user_id = (x($_REQUEST, 'user_id') ? $_REQUEST['user_id'] : "");
+		$screen_name = (x($_REQUEST, 'screen_name') ? $_REQUEST['screen_name'] : "");
 
 		//  caller user info
 		unset($_REQUEST["user_id"]);
@@ -2950,31 +3164,27 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
 		$profile_url = $user_info["url"];
 
-
 		// pagination
-		$start = $page*$count;
+		$start = $page * $count;
 
 		// filters
 		if ($box=="sentbox") {
-			$sql_extra = "`mail`.`from-url`='".dbesc( $profile_url )."'";
-		}
-		elseif ($box=="conversation") {
-			$sql_extra = "`mail`.`parent-uri`='".dbesc( $_GET["uri"] )  ."'";
-		}
-		elseif ($box=="all") {
+			$sql_extra = "`mail`.`from-url`='" . dbesc( $profile_url ) . "'";
+		} elseif ($box == "conversation") {
+			$sql_extra = "`mail`.`parent-uri`='" . dbesc( $_GET["uri"] )  . "'";
+		} elseif ($box == "all") {
 			$sql_extra = "true";
-		}
-		elseif ($box=="inbox") {
-			$sql_extra = "`mail`.`from-url`!='".dbesc( $profile_url )."'";
+		} elseif ($box == "inbox") {
+			$sql_extra = "`mail`.`from-url`!='" . dbesc( $profile_url ) . "'";
 		}
 
-		if ($max_id > 0)
-			$sql_extra .= ' AND `mail`.`id` <= '.intval($max_id);
+		if ($max_id > 0) {
+			$sql_extra .= ' AND `mail`.`id` <= ' . intval($max_id);
+		}
 
-		if ($user_id !="") {
+		if ($user_id != "") {
 			$sql_extra .= ' AND `mail`.`contact-id` = ' . intval($user_id);
-		}
-		elseif($screen_name !=""){
+		} elseif ($screen_name !="") {
 			$sql_extra .= " AND `contact`.`nick` = '" . dbesc($screen_name). "'";
 		}
 
@@ -2983,134 +3193,142 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				intval($since_id),
 				intval($start),	intval($count)
 		);
-		if ($verbose == "true") {
-			// stop execution and return error message if no mails available
-			if($r == null) {
-				$answer = array('result' => 'error', 'message' => 'no mails available');
-				return api_format_data("direct_messages_all", $type, array('$result' => $answer));
-			}
+		if ($verbose == "true" && !dbm::is_result($r)) {
+			$answer = array('result' => 'error', 'message' => 'no mails available');
+			return api_format_data("direct_messages_all", $type, array('$result' => $answer));
 		}
 
-		$ret = Array();
-		foreach($r as $item) {
-			if ($box == "inbox" || $item['from-url'] != $profile_url){
+		$ret = array();
+		foreach ($r as $item) {
+			if ($box == "inbox" || $item['from-url'] != $profile_url) {
 				$recipient = $user_info;
 				$sender = api_get_user($a,normalise_link($item['contact-url']));
-			}
-			elseif ($box == "sentbox" || $item['from-url'] == $profile_url){
+			} elseif ($box == "sentbox" || $item['from-url'] == $profile_url) {
 				$recipient = api_get_user($a,normalise_link($item['contact-url']));
 				$sender = $user_info;
-
 			}
-			$ret[]=api_format_messages($item, $recipient, $sender);
+
+			$ret[] = api_format_messages($item, $recipient, $sender);
 		}
 
 
 		$data = array('direct_message' => $ret);
-		switch($type){
+		switch ($type) {
 			case "atom":
 			case "rss":
 				$data = api_rss_extra($a, $data, $user_info);
 		}
 
-		return  api_format_data("direct-messages", $type, $data);
+		return api_format_data("direct-messages", $type, $data);
 
 	}
 
-	function api_direct_messages_sentbox($type){
-		$verbose = (x($_GET,'friendica_verbose')?strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']):"false");
+	function api_direct_messages_sentbox($type) {
+		$verbose = (x($_GET, 'friendica_verbose') ? strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']) : "false");
 		return api_direct_messages_box($type, "sentbox", $verbose);
 	}
-	function api_direct_messages_inbox($type){
-		$verbose = (x($_GET,'friendica_verbose')?strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']):"false");
+
+	function api_direct_messages_inbox($type) {
+		$verbose = (x($_GET, 'friendica_verbose') ? strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']) : "false");
 		return api_direct_messages_box($type, "inbox", $verbose);
 	}
-	function api_direct_messages_all($type){
-		$verbose = (x($_GET,'friendica_verbose')?strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']):"false");
+
+	function api_direct_messages_all($type) {
+		$verbose = (x($_GET, 'friendica_verbose') ? strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']) : "false");
 		return api_direct_messages_box($type, "all", $verbose);
 	}
-	function api_direct_messages_conversation($type){
-		$verbose = (x($_GET,'friendica_verbose')?strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']):"false");
+
+	function api_direct_messages_conversation($type) {
+		$verbose = (x($_GET, 'friendica_verbose') ? strtolower($_GET['friendica_verbose']) : "false");
 		return api_direct_messages_box($type, "conversation", $verbose);
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/direct_messages/conversation','api_direct_messages_conversation',true);
 	api_register_func('api/direct_messages/all','api_direct_messages_all',true);
 	api_register_func('api/direct_messages/sent','api_direct_messages_sentbox',true);
 	api_register_func('api/direct_messages','api_direct_messages_inbox',true);
 
-
-
-	function api_oauth_request_token($type){
-		try{
+	function api_oauth_request_token($type) {
+		try {
 			$oauth = new FKOAuth1();
 			$r = $oauth->fetch_request_token(OAuthRequest::from_request());
-		}catch(Exception $e){
-			echo "error=". OAuthUtil::urlencode_rfc3986($e->getMessage()); killme();
+		} catch (Exception $e) {
+			echo "error=" . OAuthUtil::urlencode_rfc3986($e->getMessage());
+			killme();
 		}
 		echo $r;
 		killme();
 	}
-	function api_oauth_access_token($type){
-		try{
+
+	function api_oauth_access_token($type) {
+		try {
 			$oauth = new FKOAuth1();
 			$r = $oauth->fetch_access_token(OAuthRequest::from_request());
-		}catch(Exception $e){
+		} catch (Exception $e) {
 			echo "error=". OAuthUtil::urlencode_rfc3986($e->getMessage()); killme();
 		}
 		echo $r;
 		killme();
 	}
 
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somewhere better
 	api_register_func('api/oauth/request_token', 'api_oauth_request_token', false);
 	api_register_func('api/oauth/access_token', 'api_oauth_access_token', false);
 
-
 	function api_fr_photos_list($type) {
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
-		$r = q("select `resource-id`, max(scale) as scale, album, filename, type from photo
-				where uid = %d and album != 'Contact Photos' group by `resource-id`, album, filename, type",
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
+
+		$r = q("SELECT `resource-id`, MAX(`scale`) AS `scale`, `album`, `filename`, `type`
+				FROM `photo`
+				WHERE `uid` = %d AND `album` != 'Contact Photos' GROUP BY `resource-id`, `album`, `filename`, `type`",
 			intval(local_user())
 		);
 		$typetoext = array(
-		'image/jpeg' => 'jpg',
-		'image/png' => 'png',
-		'image/gif' => 'gif'
+			'image/jpeg' => 'jpg',
+			'image/png' => 'png',
+			'image/gif' => 'gif'
 		);
-		$data = array('photo'=>array());
-		if ($r) {
+		$data = array('photo' => array());
+		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			foreach ($r as $rr) {
 				$photo = array();
 				$photo['id'] = $rr['resource-id'];
 				$photo['album'] = $rr['album'];
 				$photo['filename'] = $rr['filename'];
 				$photo['type'] = $rr['type'];
-				$thumb = App::get_baseurl()."/photo/".$rr['resource-id']."-".$rr['scale'].".".$typetoext[$rr['type']];
+				$thumb = App::get_baseurl() . "/photo/" . $rr['resource-id'] . "-" . $rr['scale'] . "." . $typetoext[$rr['type']];
 
-				if ($type == "xml")
+				if ($type == "xml") {
 					$data['photo'][] = array("@attributes" => $photo, "1" => $thumb);
-				else {
+				} else {
 					$photo['thumb'] = $thumb;
 					$data['photo'][] = $photo;
 				}
 			}
 		}
-		return  api_format_data("photos", $type, $data);
+		return api_format_data("photos", $type, $data);
 	}
 
 	function api_fr_photo_detail($type) {
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
-		if(!x($_REQUEST,'photo_id')) throw new BadRequestException("No photo id.");
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		} elseif (!x($_REQUEST, 'photo_id')) {
+			throw new BadRequestException("No photo id.");
+		}
 
 		$scale = (x($_REQUEST, 'scale') ? intval($_REQUEST['scale']) : false);
-		$scale_sql = ($scale === false ? "" : sprintf("and scale=%d",intval($scale)));
-		$data_sql = ($scale === false ? "" : "ANY_VALUE(data) AS data,");
+		$scale_sql = ($scale === false ? "" : sprintf("AND `scale`=%d",intval($scale)));
+		$data_sql = ($scale === false ? "" : "ANY_VALUE(`data`) AS data`,");
 
-		$r = q("select %s ANY_VALUE(`resource-id`) AS `resource-id`, ANY_VALUE(`created`) AS `created`,
+		$r = q("SELECT %s ANY_VALUE(`resource-id`) AS `resource-id`, ANY_VALUE(`created`) AS `created`,
 				ANY_VALUE(`edited`) AS `edited`, ANY_VALUE(`title`) AS `title`, ANY_VALUE(`desc`) AS `desc`,
 				ANY_VALUE(`album`) AS `album`, ANY_VALUE(`filename`) AS `filename`, ANY_VALUE(`type`) AS `type`,
 				ANY_VALUE(`height`) AS `height`, ANY_VALUE(`width`) AS `width`, ANY_VALUE(`datasize`) AS `datasize`,
 				ANY_VALUE(`profile`) AS `profile`, min(`scale`) as minscale, max(`scale`) as maxscale
-				from photo where `uid` = %d and `resource-id` = '%s' %s",
+				FROM `photo` WHERE `uid` = %d AND `resource-id` = '%s' %s",
 			$data_sql,
 			intval(local_user()),
 			dbesc($_REQUEST['photo_id']),
@@ -3118,12 +3336,12 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		);
 
 		$typetoext = array(
-		'image/jpeg' => 'jpg',
-		'image/png' => 'png',
-		'image/gif' => 'gif'
+			'image/jpeg' => 'jpg',
+			'image/png' => 'png',
+			'image/gif' => 'gif'
 		);
 
-		if ($r) {
+		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			$data = array('photo' => $r[0]);
 			$data['photo']['id'] = $data['photo']['resource-id'];
 			if ($scale !== false) {
@@ -3133,14 +3351,15 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			}
 			if ($type == "xml") {
 				$data['photo']['links'] = array();
-				for ($k=intval($data['photo']['minscale']); $k<=intval($data['photo']['maxscale']); $k++)
-					$data['photo']['links'][$k.":link"]["@attributes"] = array("type" => $data['photo']['type'],
-											"scale" => $k,
-											"href" => App::get_baseurl()."/photo/".$data['photo']['resource-id']."-".$k.".".$typetoext[$data['photo']['type']]);
+				for ($k = intval($data['photo']['minscale']); $k <= intval($data['photo']['maxscale']); $k++) {
+					$data['photo']['links'][$k . ":link"]["@attributes"] = array("type" => $data['photo']['type'],
+						"scale" => $k,
+						"href" => App::get_baseurl() . "/photo/" . $data['photo']['resource-id'] . "-" . $k . "." . $typetoext[$data['photo']['type']]);
+				}
 			} else {
 				$data['photo']['link'] = array();
-				for ($k=intval($data['photo']['minscale']); $k<=intval($data['photo']['maxscale']); $k++) {
-					$data['photo']['link'][$k] = App::get_baseurl()."/photo/".$data['photo']['resource-id']."-".$k.".".$typetoext[$data['photo']['type']];
+				for ($k = intval($data['photo']['minscale']); $k <= intval($data['photo']['maxscale']); $k++) {
+					$data['photo']['link'][$k] = App::get_baseurl() . "/photo/" . $data['photo']['resource-id'] . "-" . $k . "." . $typetoext[$data['photo']['type']];
 				}
 			}
 			unset($data['photo']['resource-id']);
@@ -3171,11 +3390,12 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * 		url: string, url to redirect after auth
 	 */
 	function api_friendica_remoteauth() {
-		$url = ((x($_GET,'url')) ? $_GET['url'] : '');
-		$c_url = ((x($_GET,'c_url')) ? $_GET['c_url'] : '');
+		$url = ((x($_GET, 'url')) ? $_GET['url'] : '');
+		$c_url = ((x($_GET, 'c_url')) ? $_GET['c_url'] : '');
 
-		if ($url === '' || $c_url === '')
+		if ($url === '' || $c_url === '') {
 			throw new BadRequestException("Wrong parameters.");
+		}
 
 		$c_url = normalise_link($c_url);
 
@@ -3186,18 +3406,19 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			intval(api_user())
 		);
 
-		if ((! dbm::is_result($r)) || ($r[0]['network'] !== NETWORK_DFRN))
+		if ((! dbm::is_result($r)) || ($r[0]['network'] !== NETWORK_DFRN)) {
 			throw new BadRequestException("Unknown contact");
+		}
 
 		$cid = $r[0]['id'];
 
 		$dfrn_id = $orig_id = (($r[0]['issued-id']) ? $r[0]['issued-id'] : $r[0]['dfrn-id']);
 
-		if($r[0]['duplex'] && $r[0]['issued-id']) {
+		if ($r[0]['duplex'] && $r[0]['issued-id']) {
 			$orig_id = $r[0]['issued-id'];
 			$dfrn_id = '1:' . $orig_id;
 		}
-		if($r[0]['duplex'] && $r[0]['dfrn-id']) {
+		if ($r[0]['duplex'] && $r[0]['dfrn-id']) {
 			$orig_id = $r[0]['dfrn-id'];
 			$dfrn_id = '0:' . $orig_id;
 		}
@@ -3234,12 +3455,16 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			return false;
 		}
 
-		$attributes = preg_replace("/\[share(.*?)\]\s?(.*?)\s?\[\/share\]\s?/ism","$1",$body);
-		// Skip if there is no shared message in there
-		// we already checked this in diaspora::is_reshare()
-		// but better one more than one less...
-		if ($body == $attributes)
+		/// @TODO "$1" should maybe mean '$1' ?
+		$attributes = preg_replace("/\[share(.*?)\]\s?(.*?)\s?\[\/share\]\s?/ism", "$1", $body);
+		/*
+		 * Skip if there is no shared message in there
+		 * we already checked this in diaspora::is_reshare()
+		 * but better one more than one less...
+		 */
+		if ($body == $attributes) {
 			return false;
+		}
 
 
 		// build the fake reshared item
@@ -3247,55 +3472,63 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$author = "";
 		preg_match("/author='(.*?)'/ism", $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
-			$author = html_entity_decode($matches[1],ENT_QUOTES,'UTF-8');
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
+			$author = html_entity_decode($matches[1], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
+		}
 
 		preg_match('/author="(.*?)"/ism', $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
 			$author = $matches[1];
+		}
 
 		$profile = "";
 		preg_match("/profile='(.*?)'/ism", $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
 			$profile = $matches[1];
+		}
 
 		preg_match('/profile="(.*?)"/ism', $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
 			$profile = $matches[1];
+		}
 
 		$avatar = "";
 		preg_match("/avatar='(.*?)'/ism", $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
 			$avatar = $matches[1];
+		}
 
 		preg_match('/avatar="(.*?)"/ism', $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
 			$avatar = $matches[1];
+		}
 
 		$link = "";
 		preg_match("/link='(.*?)'/ism", $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
 			$link = $matches[1];
+		}
 
 		preg_match('/link="(.*?)"/ism', $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
 			$link = $matches[1];
+		}
 
 		$posted = "";
 		preg_match("/posted='(.*?)'/ism", $attributes, $matches);
 		if ($matches[1] != "")
-			$posted= $matches[1];
+			$posted = $matches[1];
 
 		preg_match('/posted="(.*?)"/ism', $attributes, $matches);
-		if ($matches[1] != "")
+		if ($matches[1] != "") {
 			$posted = $matches[1];
+		}
 
 		$shared_body = preg_replace("/\[share(.*?)\]\s?(.*?)\s?\[\/share\]\s?/ism","$2",$body);
 
-		if (($shared_body == "") || ($profile == "") || ($author == "") || ($avatar == "") || ($posted == ""))
+		if (($shared_body == "") || ($profile == "") || ($author == "") || ($avatar == "") || ($posted == "")) {
 			return false;
-
-
+		}
 
 		$reshared_item["body"] = $shared_body;
 		$reshared_item["author-name"] = $author;
@@ -3319,32 +3552,39 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$r = q("SELECT `nick` FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = 0 AND `nurl` = '%s'",
 			dbesc(normalise_link($profile)));
-		if ($r)
+
+		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			$nick = $r[0]["nick"];
+		}
 
 		if (!$nick == "") {
 			$r = q("SELECT `nick` FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = 0 AND `nurl` = '%s'",
 				dbesc(normalise_link($profile)));
-			if ($r)
+
+			if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$nick = $r[0]["nick"];
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (!$nick == "") {
 			$friendica = preg_replace("=https?://(.*)/profile/(.*)=ism", "$2", $profile);
-			if ($friendica != $profile)
+			if ($friendica != $profile) {
 				$nick = $friendica;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (!$nick == "") {
 			$diaspora = preg_replace("=https?://(.*)/u/(.*)=ism", "$2", $profile);
-			if ($diaspora != $profile)
+			if ($diaspora != $profile) {
 				$nick = $diaspora;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (!$nick == "") {
 			$twitter = preg_replace("=https?://twitter.com/(.*)=ism", "$1", $profile);
-			if ($twitter != $profile)
+			if ($twitter != $profile) {
 				$nick = $twitter;
+			}
 		}
 
 
@@ -3355,8 +3595,9 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 				if ($StatusnetUser != $profile) {
 					$UserData = fetch_url("http://".$StatusnetHost."/api/users/show.json?user_id=".$StatusnetUser);
 					$user = json_decode($UserData);
-					if ($user)
+					if ($user) {
 						$nick = $user->screen_name;
+					}
 				}
 			}
 		}
@@ -3370,10 +3611,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		//}
 
-		if ($nick != "")
-			return($nick);
+		if ($nick != "") {
+			return $nick;
+		}
 
-		return(false);
+		return false;
 	}
 
 	function api_in_reply_to($item) {
@@ -3431,7 +3673,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	}
 
 	function api_clean_plain_items($Text) {
-		$include_entities = strtolower(x($_REQUEST,'include_entities')?$_REQUEST['include_entities']:"false");
+		$include_entities = strtolower(x($_REQUEST, 'include_entities') ? $_REQUEST['include_entities'] : "false");
 
 		$Text = bb_CleanPictureLinks($Text);
 		$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
@@ -3525,11 +3767,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
 
 		// params
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
-		$gid = (x($_REQUEST,'gid') ? $_REQUEST['gid'] : 0);
+		$gid = (x($_REQUEST, 'gid') ? $_REQUEST['gid'] : 0);
 		$uid = $user_info['uid'];
 
 		// get data of the specified group id or all groups if not specified
@@ -3576,11 +3818,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
 
 		// params
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
-		$gid = (x($_REQUEST,'gid') ? $_REQUEST['gid'] : 0);
+		$gid = (x($_REQUEST, 'gid') ? $_REQUEST['gid'] : 0);
 		$name = (x($_REQUEST, 'name') ? $_REQUEST['name'] : "");
 		$uid = $user_info['uid'];
 
@@ -3623,7 +3865,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
 
 		// params
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
@@ -3689,7 +3931,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
 
 		// params
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
@@ -3741,14 +3983,14 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		$success = array('success' => true, 'gid' => $gid, 'name' => $name, 'status' => $status, 'wrong users' => $errorusers);
 		return api_format_data("group_update", $type, array('result' => $success));
 	}
-	api_register_func('api/friendica/group_update', 'api_friendica_group_update', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 
+	api_register_func('api/friendica/group_update', 'api_friendica_group_update', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 
 	function api_friendica_activity($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
 		$verb = strtolower($a->argv[3]);
 		$verb = preg_replace("|\..*$|", "", $verb);
 
@@ -3767,6 +4009,8 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		}
 
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/friendica/activity/like', 'api_friendica_activity', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 	api_register_func('api/friendica/activity/dislike', 'api_friendica_activity', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 	api_register_func('api/friendica/activity/attendyes', 'api_friendica_activity', true, API_METHOD_POST);
@@ -3788,7 +4032,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
 		if ($a->argc!==3) throw new BadRequestException("Invalid argument count");
 		$nm = new NotificationsManager();
 
@@ -3813,11 +4057,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @param string $type Known types are 'atom', 'rss', 'xml' and 'json'
 	 * @return string
 	 */
-	function api_friendica_notification_seen($type){
+	function api_friendica_notification_seen($type) {
 
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) throw new ForbiddenException();
 		if ($a->argc!==4) throw new BadRequestException("Invalid argument count");
 
 		$id = (x($_REQUEST, 'id') ? intval($_REQUEST['id']) : 0);
@@ -3845,19 +4089,21 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		return api_format_data('result', $type, array('result' => "success"));
 	}
 
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/friendica/notification/seen', 'api_friendica_notification_seen', true, API_METHOD_POST);
 	api_register_func('api/friendica/notification', 'api_friendica_notification', true, API_METHOD_GET);
 
-
 	/**
 	 * @brief update a direct_message to seen state
 	 *
 	 * @param string $type Known types are 'atom', 'rss', 'xml' and 'json'
 	 * @return string (success result=ok, error result=error with error message)
 	 */
-	function api_friendica_direct_messages_setseen($type){
+	function api_friendica_direct_messages_setseen($type) {
 		$a = get_app();
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		// params
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
@@ -3874,6 +4120,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		$r = q("SELECT `id` FROM `mail` WHERE `id` = %d AND `uid` = %d",
 			intval($id),
 			intval($uid));
+
 		// error message if specified id is not in database
 		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			$answer = array('result' => 'error', 'message' => 'message id not in database');
@@ -3894,11 +4141,10 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			return api_format_data("direct_messages_setseen", $type, array('$result' => $answer));
 		}
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/friendica/direct_messages_setseen', 'api_friendica_direct_messages_setseen', true);
 
-
-
-
 	/**
 	 * @brief search for direct_messages containing a searchstring through api
 	 *
@@ -3907,14 +4153,16 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 *                          success=false if nothing was found, search_result='nothing found',
 	 * 		   error: result=error with error message)
 	 */
-	function api_friendica_direct_messages_search($type){
+	function api_friendica_direct_messages_search($type) {
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		// params
 		$user_info = api_get_user($a);
-		$searchstring = (x($_REQUEST,'searchstring') ? $_REQUEST['searchstring'] : "");
+		$searchstring = (x($_REQUEST, 'searchstring') ? $_REQUEST['searchstring'] : "");
 		$uid = $user_info['uid'];
 
 		// error if no searchstring specified
@@ -3930,29 +4178,32 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 		);
 
 		$profile_url = $user_info["url"];
+
 		// message if nothing was found
-		if (!dbm::is_result($r))
+		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			$success = array('success' => false, 'search_results' => 'problem with query');
-		else if (count($r) == 0)
+		} elseif (count($r) == 0) {
 			$success = array('success' => false, 'search_results' => 'nothing found');
-		else {
-			$ret = Array();
-			foreach($r as $item) {
-				if ($box == "inbox" || $item['from-url'] != $profile_url){
+		} else {
+			$ret = array();
+			foreach ($r as $item) {
+				if ($box == "inbox" || $item['from-url'] != $profile_url) {
 					$recipient = $user_info;
 					$sender = api_get_user($a,normalise_link($item['contact-url']));
-				}
-				elseif ($box == "sentbox" || $item['from-url'] == $profile_url){
+				} elseif ($box == "sentbox" || $item['from-url'] == $profile_url) {
 					$recipient = api_get_user($a,normalise_link($item['contact-url']));
 					$sender = $user_info;
 				}
-				$ret[]=api_format_messages($item, $recipient, $sender);
+
+				$ret[] = api_format_messages($item, $recipient, $sender);
 			}
 			$success = array('success' => true, 'search_results' => $ret);
 		}
 
 		return api_format_data("direct_message_search", $type, array('$result' => $success));
 	}
+
+	/// @TODO move to top of file or somwhere better
 	api_register_func('api/friendica/direct_messages_search', 'api_friendica_direct_messages_search', true);
 
 	/**
@@ -3961,13 +4212,15 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	 * @param string $type Known types are 'atom', 'rss', 'xml' and 'json'
 	 * @return string
 	 */
-	function api_friendica_profile_show($type){
+	function api_friendica_profile_show($type) {
 		$a = get_app();
 
-		if (api_user()===false) throw new ForbiddenException();
+		if (api_user() === false) {
+			throw new ForbiddenException();
+		}
 
 		// input params
-		$profileid = (x($_REQUEST,'profile_id') ? $_REQUEST['profile_id'] : 0);
+		$profileid = (x($_REQUEST, 'profile_id') ? $_REQUEST['profile_id'] : 0);
 
 		// retrieve general information about profiles for user
 		$multi_profiles = feature_enabled(api_user(),'multi_profiles');
@@ -3978,9 +4231,11 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 			$r = q("SELECT * FROM `profile` WHERE `uid` = %d AND `id` = %d",
 				intval(api_user()),
 				intval($profileid));
+
 			// error message if specified gid is not in database
-			if (!dbm::is_result($r))
+			if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				throw new BadRequestException("profile_id not available");
+			}
 		} else {
 			$r = q("SELECT * FROM `profile` WHERE `uid` = %d",
 				intval(api_user()));
@@ -3998,13 +4253,13 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
 			foreach ($r as $rr) {
 				$user = api_get_user($a, $rr['nurl']);
-				($type == "xml") ? $users[$k++.":user"] = $user : $users[] = $user;
+				($type == "xml") ? $users[$k++ . ":user"] = $user : $users[] = $user;
 			}
 			$profile['users'] = $users;
 
 			// add prepared profile data to array for final return
 			if ($type == "xml") {
-				$profiles[$k++.":profile"] = $profile;
+				$profiles[$k++ . ":profile"] = $profile;
 			} else {
 				$profiles[] = $profile;
 			}
@@ -4022,6 +4277,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 	api_register_func('api/friendica/profile/show', 'api_friendica_profile_show', true, API_METHOD_GET);
 
 /*
+@TODO Maybe open to implement?
 To.Do:
     [pagename] => api/1.1/statuses/lookup.json
     [id] => 605138389168451584
diff --git a/include/attach.php b/include/attach.php
index 6b26b1ed65..ee6f49937a 100644
--- a/include/attach.php
+++ b/include/attach.php
@@ -1060,13 +1060,14 @@ function z_mime_content_type($filename) {
 		'zsh' => 'text/x-script.zsh',
 	);
 
-	$dot = strpos($filename,'.');
-	if($dot !== false) {
-		$ext = strtolower(substr($filename,$dot+1));
+	$dot = strpos($filename, '.');
+	if ($dot !== false) {
+		$ext = strtolower(substr($filename, $dot + 1));
 		if (array_key_exists($ext, $mime_types)) {
 			return $mime_types[$ext];
 		}
 	}
+	/// @TODO Then let's get rid of it?
 // can't use this because we're just passing a name, e.g. not a file that can be opened
 //	elseif (function_exists('finfo_open')) {
 //		$finfo = @finfo_open(FILEINFO_MIME);
diff --git a/include/bb2diaspora.php b/include/bb2diaspora.php
index cef293c766..a07a583538 100644
--- a/include/bb2diaspora.php
+++ b/include/bb2diaspora.php
@@ -27,14 +27,15 @@ function diaspora_mention2bb($match) {
 		$name = $data['name'];
 	}
 
-	return '@[url='.$data['url'].']'.$name.'[/url]';
+	return '@[url=' . $data['url'] . ']' . $name . '[/url]';
 }
 
-// we don't want to support a bbcode specific markdown interpreter
-// and the markdown library we have is pretty good, but provides HTML output.
-// So we'll use that to convert to HTML, then convert the HTML back to bbcode,
-// and then clean up a few Diaspora specific constructs.
-
+/*
+ * we don't want to support a bbcode specific markdown interpreter
+ * and the markdown library we have is pretty good, but provides HTML output.
+ * So we'll use that to convert to HTML, then convert the HTML back to bbcode,
+ * and then clean up a few Diaspora specific constructs.
+ */
 function diaspora2bb($s) {
 
 	$s = html_entity_decode($s, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
@@ -93,15 +94,15 @@ function diaspora_mentions($match) {
 
 	$contact = get_contact_details_by_url($match[3]);
 
-	if (!isset($contact['addr'])) {
+	if (!x($contact, 'addr')) {
 		$contact = Probe::uri($match[3]);
 	}
 
-	if (!isset($contact['addr'])) {
+	if (!x($contact, 'addr')) {
 		return $match[0];
 	}
 
-	$mention = '@{'.$match[2].'; '.$contact['addr'].'}';
+	$mention = '@{' . $match[2] . '; ' . $contact['addr'] . '}';
 	return $mention;
 }
 
@@ -222,9 +223,9 @@ function unescape_underscores_in_links($m) {
 }
 
 function format_event_diaspora($ev) {
-
-	if(! ((is_array($ev)) && count($ev)))
+	if (! ((is_array($ev)) && count($ev))) {
 		return '';
+	}
 
 	$bd_format = t('l F d, Y \@ g:i A') ; // Friday January 18, 2011 @ 8 AM
 
@@ -239,17 +240,19 @@ function format_event_diaspora($ev) {
 			$ev['start'] , $bd_format)))
 		.  '](' . App::get_baseurl() . '/localtime/?f=&time=' . urlencode(datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$ev['start'])) . ")\n";
 
-	if(! $ev['nofinish'])
+	if (! $ev['nofinish']) {
 		$o .= t('Finishes:') . ' ' . '['
 			. (($ev['adjust']) ? day_translate(datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC',
 				$ev['finish'] , $bd_format ))
 				:  day_translate(datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC',
 				$ev['finish'] , $bd_format )))
 			. '](' . App::get_baseurl() . '/localtime/?f=&time=' . urlencode(datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$ev['finish'])) . ")\n";
+	}
 
-	if(strlen($ev['location']))
+	if (strlen($ev['location'])) {
 		$o .= t('Location:') . bb2diaspora($ev['location'])
 			. "\n";
+	}
 
 	$o .= "\n";
 	return $o;
diff --git a/include/bbcode.php b/include/bbcode.php
index fd380edc99..2a70f95e59 100644
--- a/include/bbcode.php
+++ b/include/bbcode.php
@@ -9,35 +9,38 @@ require_once 'include/Contact.php';
 require_once 'include/plaintext.php';
 
 function bb_PictureCacheExt($matches) {
-	if (strpos($matches[3], "data:image/") === 0)
-		return ($matches[0]);
+	if (strpos($matches[3], "data:image/") === 0) {
+		return $matches[0];
+	}
 
 	$matches[3] = proxy_url($matches[3]);
-	return "[img=".$matches[1]."x".$matches[2]."]".$matches[3]."[/img]";
+	return "[img=" . $matches[1] . "x" . $matches[2] . "]" . $matches[3] . "[/img]";
 }
 
 function bb_PictureCache($matches) {
-	if (strpos($matches[1], "data:image/") === 0)
-		return ($matches[0]);
+	if (strpos($matches[1], "data:image/") === 0) {
+		return $matches[0];
+	}
 
 	$matches[1] = proxy_url($matches[1]);
-	return "[img]".$matches[1]."[/img]";
+	return "[img]" . $matches[1] . "[/img]";
 }
 
 function bb_map_coords($match) {
 	// the extra space in the following line is intentional
-	return str_replace($match[0],'<div class="map"  >' . generate_map(str_replace('/',' ',$match[1])) . '</div>', $match[0]);
+	return str_replace($match[0], '<div class="map"  >' . generate_map(str_replace('/', ' ', $match[1])) . '</div>', $match[0]);
 }
 function bb_map_location($match) {
 	// the extra space in the following line is intentional
-	return str_replace($match[0],'<div class="map"  >' . generate_named_map($match[1]) . '</div>', $match[0]);
+	return str_replace($match[0], '<div class="map"  >' . generate_named_map($match[1]) . '</div>', $match[0]);
 }
 
 function bb_attachment($Text, $simplehtml = false, $tryoembed = true) {
 
 	$data = get_attachment_data($Text);
-	if (!$data)
+	if (!$data) {
 		return $Text;
+	}
 
 	if (isset($data["title"])) {
 		$data["title"] = strip_tags($data["title"]);
@@ -57,83 +60,91 @@ function bb_attachment($Text, $simplehtml = false, $tryoembed = true) {
 
 		// If the link description is similar to the text above then don't add the link description
 		if (($data["title"] != "") AND ((strpos($test1,$test2) !== false) OR
-			(similar_text($test1,$test2) / strlen($data["title"])) > 0.9))
+			(similar_text($test1,$test2) / strlen($data["title"])) > 0.9)) {
 			$title2 = $data["url"];
+		}
 		$text = sprintf('<a href="%s" title="%s" class="attachment thumbnail" rel="nofollow external">%s</a><br />',
 				$data["url"], $data["title"], $title2);
-	} elseif (($simplehtml != 4) AND ($simplehtml != 0))
+	} elseif (($simplehtml != 4) AND ($simplehtml != 0)) {
 		$text = sprintf('<a href="%s" target="_blank">%s</a><br>', $data["url"], $data["title"]);
-	else {
+	} else {
 		$text = sprintf('<span class="type-%s">', $data["type"]);
 
 		$bookmark = array(sprintf('[bookmark=%s]%s[/bookmark]', $data["url"], $data["title"]), $data["url"], $data["title"]);
-		if ($tryoembed)
+		if ($tryoembed) {
 			$oembed = tryoembed($bookmark);
-		else
+		} else {
 			$oembed = $bookmark[0];
+		}
 
-		if (strstr(strtolower($oembed), "<iframe "))
+		if (strstr(strtolower($oembed), "<iframe ")) {
 			$text = $oembed;
-		else {
-			if (($data["image"] != "") AND !strstr(strtolower($oembed), "<img "))
+		} else {
+			if (($data["image"] != "") AND !strstr(strtolower($oembed), "<img ")) {
 				$text .= sprintf('<a href="%s" target="_blank"><img src="%s" alt="" title="%s" class="attachment-image" /></a><br />', $data["url"], proxy_url($data["image"]), $data["title"]);
-			elseif (($data["preview"] != "") AND !strstr(strtolower($oembed), "<img "))
+			} elseif (($data["preview"] != "") AND !strstr(strtolower($oembed), "<img ")) {
 				$text .= sprintf('<a href="%s" target="_blank"><img src="%s" alt="" title="%s" class="attachment-preview" /></a><br />', $data["url"], proxy_url($data["preview"]), $data["title"]);
+			}
 
-			if (($data["type"] == "photo") AND ($data["url"] != "") AND ($data["image"] != ""))
+			if (($data["type"] == "photo") AND ($data["url"] != "") AND ($data["image"] != "")) {
 				$text .= sprintf('<a href="%s" target="_blank"><img src="%s" alt="" title="%s" class="attachment-image" /></a>', $data["url"], proxy_url($data["image"]), $data["title"]);
-			else
+			} else {
 				$text .= $oembed;
+			}
 
-			if (trim($data["description"]) != "")
+			if (trim($data["description"]) != "") {
 				$text .= sprintf('<blockquote>%s</blockquote></span>', trim(bbcode($data["description"])));
+			}
 		}
 	}
-	return $data["text"].$text.$data["after"];
+	return $data["text"] . $text . $data["after"];
 }
 
 function bb_remove_share_information($Text, $plaintext = false, $nolink = false) {
 
 	$data = get_attachment_data($Text);
 
-	if (!$data)
+	if (!$data) {
 		return $Text;
-
-	if ($nolink)
-		return $data["text"].$data["after"];
+	} elseif ($nolink) {
+		return $data["text"] . $data["after"];
+	}
 
 	$title = htmlentities($data["title"], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false);
 	$text = htmlentities($data["text"], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8', false);
-	if ($plaintext OR (($title != "") AND strstr($text, $title)))
+	if ($plaintext OR (($title != "") AND strstr($text, $title))) {
 		$data["title"] = $data["url"];
-	elseif (($text != "") AND strstr($title, $text)) {
+	} elseif (($text != "") AND strstr($title, $text)) {
 		$data["text"] = $data["title"];
 		$data["title"] = $data["url"];
 	}
 
-	if (($data["text"] == "") AND ($data["title"] != "") AND ($data["url"] == ""))
-		return $data["title"].$data["after"];
+	if (($data["text"] == "") AND ($data["title"] != "") AND ($data["url"] == "")) {
+		return $data["title"] . $data["after"];
+	}
 
 	// If the link already is included in the post, don't add it again
-	if (($data["url"] != "") AND strpos($data["text"], $data["url"]))
-		return $data["text"].$data["after"];
+	if (($data["url"] != "") AND strpos($data["text"], $data["url"])) {
+		return $data["text"] . $data["after"];
+	}
 
 	$text = $data["text"];
 
-	if (($data["url"] != "") AND ($data["title"] != ""))
-		$text .= "\n[url=".$data["url"]."]".$data["title"]."[/url]";
-	elseif (($data["url"] != ""))
-		$text .= "\n".$data["url"];
+	if (($data["url"] != "") AND ($data["title"] != "")) {
+		$text .= "\n[url=" . $data["url"] . "]" . $data["title"] . "[/url]";
+	} elseif (($data["url"] != "")) {
+		$text .= "\n" . $data["url"];
+	}
 
-	return $text."\n".$data["after"];
+	return $text . "\n" . $data["after"];
 }
 
 function bb_cleanstyle($st) {
-  return "<span style=\"".cleancss($st[1]).";\">".$st[2]."</span>";
+	return "<span style=\"" . cleancss($st[1]) . ";\">" . $st[2] . "</span>";
 }
 
 function bb_cleanclass($st) {
-  return "<span class=\"".cleancss($st[1])."\">".$st[2]."</span>";
+	return "<span class=\"" . cleancss($st[1]) . "\">" . $st[2] . "</span>";
 }
 
 function cleancss($input) {
@@ -145,14 +156,16 @@ function cleancss($input) {
 	for ($i = 0; $i < strlen($input); $i++) {
 		$char = substr($input, $i, 1);
 
-		if (($char >= "a") and ($char <= "z"))
+		if (($char >= "a") and ($char <= "z")) {
 			$cleaned .= $char;
+		}
 
-		if (!(strpos(" #;:0123456789-_.%", $char) === false))
+		if (!(strpos(" #;:0123456789-_.%", $char) === false)) {
 			$cleaned .= $char;
+		}
 	}
 
-	return($cleaned);
+	return $cleaned;
 }
 
 function stripcode_br_cb($s) {
@@ -166,25 +179,30 @@ function tryoembed($match) {
 	$url = str_replace(array("http://www.youtube.com/", "http://player.vimeo.com/"),
 				array("https://www.youtube.com/", "https://player.vimeo.com/"), $url);
 
-
 	$o = oembed_fetch_url($url);
 
-	if (!is_object($o))
+	if (!is_object($o)) {
 		return $match[0];
+	}
 
-	if (isset($match[2]))
+	if (isset($match[2])) {
 		$o->title = $match[2];
+	}
 
-	if ($o->type=="error") return $match[0];
+	if ($o->type == "error") {
+		return $match[0];
+	}
 
 	$html = oembed_format_object($o);
+
 	return $html;
 }
 
-// [noparse][i]italic[/i][/noparse] turns into
-// [noparse][ i ]italic[ /i ][/noparse],
-// to hide them from parser.
-
+/*
+ * [noparse][i]italic[/i][/noparse] turns into
+ * [noparse][ i ]italic[ /i ][/noparse],
+ * to hide them from parser.
+ */
 function bb_spacefy($st) {
 	$whole_match = $st[0];
 	$captured = $st[1];
@@ -193,10 +211,11 @@ function bb_spacefy($st) {
 	return $new_str;
 }
 
-// The previously spacefied [noparse][ i ]italic[ /i ][/noparse],
-// now turns back and the [noparse] tags are trimed
-// returning [i]italic[/i]
-
+/*
+ * The previously spacefied [noparse][ i ]italic[ /i ][/noparse],
+ * now turns back and the [noparse] tags are trimed
+ * returning [i]italic[/i]
+ */
 function bb_unspacefy_and_trim($st) {
 	$whole_match = $st[0];
 	$captured = $st[1];
@@ -205,23 +224,26 @@ function bb_unspacefy_and_trim($st) {
 }
 
 function bb_find_open_close($s, $open, $close, $occurence = 1) {
-
-	if($occurence < 1)
+	if ($occurence < 1) {
 		$occurence = 1;
-
-	$start_pos = -1;
-	for($i = 1; $i <= $occurence; $i++) {
-		if( $start_pos !== false)
-			$start_pos = strpos($s, $open, $start_pos + 1);
 	}
 
-	if( $start_pos === false)
+	$start_pos = -1;
+	for ($i = 1; $i <= $occurence; $i++) {
+		if ($start_pos !== false) {
+			$start_pos = strpos($s, $open, $start_pos + 1);
+		}
+	}
+
+	if ($start_pos === false) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	$end_pos = strpos($s, $close, $start_pos);
 
-	if( $end_pos === false)
+	if ($end_pos === false) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	$res = array( 'start' => $start_pos, 'end' => $end_pos );
 
@@ -229,36 +251,50 @@ function bb_find_open_close($s, $open, $close, $occurence = 1) {
 }
 
 function get_bb_tag_pos($s, $name, $occurence = 1) {
-
-	if($occurence < 1)
+	if ($occurence < 1) {
 		$occurence = 1;
-
-	$start_open = -1;
-	for($i = 1; $i <= $occurence; $i++) {
-		if( $start_open !== false)
-			$start_open = strpos($s, '[' . $name, $start_open + 1); // allow [name= type tags
 	}
 
-	if( $start_open === false)
+	$start_open = -1;
+	for ($i = 1; $i <= $occurence; $i++) {
+		if ($start_open !== false) {
+			$start_open = strpos($s, '[' . $name, $start_open + 1); // allow [name= type tags
+		}
+	}
+
+	if ($start_open === false) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	$start_equal = strpos($s, '=', $start_open);
 	$start_close = strpos($s, ']', $start_open);
 
-	if( $start_close === false)
+	if ($start_close === false) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	$start_close++;
 
 	$end_open = strpos($s, '[/' . $name . ']', $start_close);
 
-	if( $end_open === false)
+	if ($end_open === false) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
-	$res = array( 'start' => array('open' => $start_open, 'close' => $start_close),
-		      'end' => array('open' => $end_open, 'close' => $end_open + strlen('[/' . $name . ']')) );
-	if( $start_equal !== false)
+	$res = array(
+		'start' => array(
+			'open'  => $start_open,
+			'close' => $start_close
+		),
+		'end'   => array(
+			'open'  => $end_open,
+			'close' => $end_open + strlen('[/' . $name . ']')
+		),
+	);
+
+	if ($start_equal !== false) {
 		$res['start']['equal'] = $start_equal + 1;
+	}
 
 	return $res;
 }
@@ -269,13 +305,13 @@ function bb_tag_preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $name, $s) {
 
 	$occurence = 1;
 	$pos = get_bb_tag_pos($string, $name, $occurence);
-	while($pos !== false && $occurence < 1000) {
-
+	while ($pos !== false && $occurence < 1000) {
 		$start = substr($string, 0, $pos['start']['open']);
 		$subject = substr($string, $pos['start']['open'], $pos['end']['close'] - $pos['start']['open']);
 		$end = substr($string, $pos['end']['close']);
-		if($end === false)
+		if ($end === false) {
 			$end = '';
+		}
 
 		$subject = preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $subject);
 		$string = $start . $subject . $end;
@@ -287,7 +323,7 @@ function bb_tag_preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $name, $s) {
 	return $string;
 }
 
-if(! function_exists('bb_extract_images')) {
+if (! function_exists('bb_extract_images')) {
 function bb_extract_images($body) {
 
 	$saved_image = array();
@@ -298,26 +334,28 @@ function bb_extract_images($body) {
 	$img_start = strpos($orig_body, '[img');
 	$img_st_close = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), ']') : false);
 	$img_end = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), '[/img]') : false);
-	while(($img_st_close !== false) && ($img_end !== false)) {
+	while (($img_st_close !== false) && ($img_end !== false)) {
 
 		$img_st_close++; // make it point to AFTER the closing bracket
 		$img_end += $img_start;
 
-		if(! strcmp(substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close, 5), 'data:')) {
+		if (! strcmp(substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close, 5), 'data:')) {
 			// This is an embedded image
 
 			$saved_image[$cnt] = substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close, $img_end - ($img_start + $img_st_close));
 			$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, 0, $img_start) . '[$#saved_image' . $cnt . '#$]';
 
 			$cnt++;
-		}
-		else
+		} else {
 			$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, 0, $img_end + strlen('[/img]'));
+		}
 
 		$orig_body = substr($orig_body, $img_end + strlen('[/img]'));
 
-		if($orig_body === false) // in case the body ends on a closing image tag
+		if ($orig_body === false) {
+			// in case the body ends on a closing image tag
 			$orig_body = '';
+		}
 
 		$img_start = strpos($orig_body, '[img');
 		$img_st_close = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), ']') : false);
@@ -329,7 +367,7 @@ function bb_extract_images($body) {
 	return array('body' => $new_body, 'images' => $saved_image);
 }}
 
-if(! function_exists('bb_replace_images')) {
+if (! function_exists('bb_replace_images')) {
 function bb_replace_images($body, $images) {
 
 	$newbody = $body;
@@ -504,85 +542,94 @@ function bb_ShareAttributes($share, $simplehtml) {
 				);
 			break;
 	}
-	return($text);
+
+	return $text;
 }
 
 function GetProfileUsername($profile, $username, $compact = false, $getnetwork = false) {
 
 	$twitter = preg_replace("=https?://twitter.com/(.*)=ism", "$1@twitter.com", $profile);
 	if ($twitter != $profile) {
-		if ($getnetwork)
-			return(NETWORK_TWITTER);
-		elseif ($compact)
-			return($twitter);
-		else
-			return($username." (".$twitter.")");
+		if ($getnetwork) {
+			return NETWORK_TWITTER;
+		} elseif ($compact) {
+			return $twitter;
+		} else {
+			return ($username . " (" . $twitter . ")");
+		}
 	}
 
 	$appnet = preg_replace("=https?://alpha.app.net/(.*)=ism", "$1@alpha.app.net", $profile);
 	if ($appnet != $profile) {
-		if ($getnetwork)
-			return(NETWORK_APPNET);
-		elseif ($compact)
-			return($appnet);
-		else
-			return($username." (".$appnet.")");
+		if ($getnetwork) {
+			return NETWORK_APPNET;
+		} elseif ($compact) {
+			return $appnet;
+		} else {
+			return ($username . " (" . $appnet . ")");
+		}
 	}
 
 	$gplus = preg_replace("=https?://plus.google.com/(.*)=ism", "$1@plus.google.com", $profile);
 	if ($gplus != $profile) {
-		if ($getnetwork)
-			return(NETWORK_GPLUS);
-		elseif ($compact)
-			return($gplususername." (".$username.")");
-		else
-			return($username." (".$gplus.")");
+		if ($getnetwork) {
+			return NETWORK_GPLUS;
+		} elseif ($compact) {
+			return ($gplususername . " (" . $username . ")");
+		} else {
+			return ($username . " (" . $gplus . ")");
+		}
 	}
 
 	$friendica = preg_replace("=https?://(.*)/profile/(.*)=ism", "$2@$1", $profile);
 	if ($friendica != $profile) {
-		if ($getnetwork)
-			return(NETWORK_DFRN);
-		elseif ($compact)
-			return($friendica);
-		else
-			return($username." (".$friendica.")");
+		if ($getnetwork) {
+			return NETWORK_DFRN;
+		} elseif ($compact) {
+			return $friendica;
+		} else {
+			return ($username . " (" . $friendica . ")");
+		}
 	}
 
 	$diaspora = preg_replace("=https?://(.*)/u/(.*)=ism", "$2@$1", $profile);
 	if ($diaspora != $profile) {
-		if ($getnetwork)
-			return(NETWORK_DIASPORA);
-		elseif ($compact)
-			return($diaspora);
-		else
-			return($username." (".$diaspora.")");
+		if ($getnetwork) {
+			return NETWORK_DIASPORA;
+		} elseif ($compact) {
+			return $diaspora;
+		} else {
+			return ($username . " (" . $diaspora . ")");
+		}
 	}
 
 	$red = preg_replace("=https?://(.*)/channel/(.*)=ism", "$2@$1", $profile);
 	if ($red != $profile) {
-		if ($getnetwork)
+		if ($getnetwork) {
 			// red is identified as Diaspora - friendica can't connect directly to it
-			return(NETWORK_DIASPORA);
-		elseif ($compact)
-			return($red);
-		else
-			return($username." (".$red.")");
+			return NETWORK_DIASPORA;
+		} elseif ($compact) {
+			return $red;
+		} else {
+			return ($username . " (" . $red . ")");
+		}
 	}
 
 	$StatusnetHost = preg_replace("=https?://(.*)/user/(.*)=ism", "$1", $profile);
 	if ($StatusnetHost != $profile) {
 		$StatusnetUser = preg_replace("=https?://(.*)/user/(.*)=ism", "$2", $profile);
 		if ($StatusnetUser != $profile) {
+			/// @TODO Some hosts run on https, not just http and sometimes http is disabled, let's support both here
 			$UserData = fetch_url("http://".$StatusnetHost."/api/users/show.json?user_id=".$StatusnetUser);
 			$user = json_decode($UserData);
 			if ($user) {
-				if ($getnetwork)
-					return(NETWORK_STATUSNET);
-				elseif ($compact)
-					return($user->screen_name."@".$StatusnetHost);
-				else
-					return($username." (".$user->screen_name."@".$StatusnetHost.")");
+				if ($getnetwork) {
+					return NETWORK_STATUSNET;
+				} elseif ($compact) {
+					return ($user->screen_name . "@" . $StatusnetHost);
+				} else {
+					return ($username . " (" . $user->screen_name . "@" . $StatusnetHost . ")");
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}
@@ -592,16 +639,17 @@ function GetProfileUsername($profile, $username, $compact = false, $getnetwork =
 	if ($rest == "") {
 		$pumpio = preg_replace("=https?://([\.\w]+)/([\.\w]+)(.*)=ism", "$2@$1", $profile);
 		if ($pumpio != $profile) {
-			if ($getnetwork)
-				return(NETWORK_PUMPIO);
-			elseif ($compact)
-				return($pumpio);
-			else
-				return($username." (".$pumpio.")");
+			if ($getnetwork) {
+				return NETWORK_PUMPIO;
+			} elseif ($compact) {
+				return $pumpio;
+			} else {
+				return ($username . " (" . $pumpio . ")");
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
-	return($username);
+	return $username;
 }
 
 function bb_DiasporaLinks($match) {
@@ -611,7 +659,7 @@ function bb_DiasporaLinks($match) {
 function bb_RemovePictureLinks($match) {
 	$text = Cache::get($match[1]);
 
-	if(is_null($text)){
+	if (is_null($text)) {
 		$a = get_app();
 
 		$stamp1 = microtime(true);
@@ -652,20 +700,22 @@ function bb_RemovePictureLinks($match) {
 		}
 		Cache::set($match[1],$text);
 	}
-	return($text);
+
+	return $text;
 }
 
 function bb_expand_links($match) {
-	if (($match[3] == "") OR ($match[2] == $match[3]) OR stristr($match[2], $match[3]))
-		return ($match[1]."[url]".$match[2]."[/url]");
-	else
-		return ($match[1].$match[3]." [url]".$match[2]."[/url]");
+	if (($match[3] == "") OR ($match[2] == $match[3]) OR stristr($match[2], $match[3])) {
+		return ($match[1] . "[url]" . $match[2] . "[/url]");
+	} else {
+		return ($match[1] . $match[3] . " [url]" . $match[2] . "[/url]");
+	}
 }
 
 function bb_CleanPictureLinksSub($match) {
 	$text = Cache::get($match[1]);
 
-	if(is_null($text)){
+	if (is_null($text)) {
 		$a = get_app();
 
 		$stamp1 = microtime(true);
@@ -707,18 +757,20 @@ function bb_CleanPictureLinksSub($match) {
 		}
 		Cache::set($match[1],$text);
 	}
-	return($text);
+
+	return $text;
 }
 
 function bb_CleanPictureLinks($text) {
 	$text = preg_replace_callback("&\[url=([^\[\]]*)\]\[img\](.*)\[\/img\]\[\/url\]&Usi", 'bb_CleanPictureLinksSub', $text);
-	return ($text);
+	return $text;
 }
 
 function bb_highlight($match) {
-	if(in_array(strtolower($match[1]),['php','css','mysql','sql','abap','diff','html','perl','ruby',
-		'vbscript','avrc','dtd','java','xml','cpp','python','javascript','js','sh']))
-		return text_highlight($match[2],strtolower($match[1]));
+	if (in_array(strtolower($match[1]), ['php', 'css', 'mysql', 'sql', 'abap', 'diff', 'html', 'perl', 'ruby',
+		'vbscript', 'avrc', 'dtd', 'java', 'xml', 'cpp', 'python', 'javascript', 'js', 'sh'])) {
+		return text_highlight($match[2], strtolower($match[1]));
+	}
 	return $match[0];
 }
 
@@ -827,7 +879,7 @@ function bbcode($Text, $preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fa
 	// Handle attached links or videos
 	$Text = bb_attachment($Text, $simplehtml, $tryoembed);
 
-	$Text = str_replace(array("\r","\n"), array('<br />','<br />'), $Text);
+	$Text = str_replace(array("\r","\n"), array('<br />', '<br />'), $Text);
 
 	if ($preserve_nl) {
 		$Text = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), array('', ''), $Text);
@@ -1082,15 +1134,14 @@ function bbcode($Text, $preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fa
 
 	// Shared content
 	$Text = preg_replace_callback("/(.*?)\[share(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/share\]/ism",
-		function ($match) use ($simplehtml){
-			return(bb_ShareAttributes($match, $simplehtml));
+		function ($match) use ($simplehtml) {
+			return bb_ShareAttributes($match, $simplehtml);
 		}, $Text);
 
 	$Text = preg_replace("/\[crypt\](.*?)\[\/crypt\]/ism", '<br/><img src="' .App::get_baseurl() . '/images/lock_icon.gif" alt="' . t('Encrypted content') . '" title="' . t('Encrypted content') . '" /><br />', $Text);
 	$Text = preg_replace("/\[crypt(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/crypt\]/ism", '<br/><img src="' .App::get_baseurl() . '/images/lock_icon.gif" alt="' . t('Encrypted content') . '" title="' . '$1' . ' ' . t('Encrypted content') . '" /><br />', $Text);
 	//$Text = preg_replace("/\[crypt=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/crypt\]/ism", '<br/><img src="' .App::get_baseurl() . '/images/lock_icon.gif" alt="' . t('Encrypted content') . '" title="' . '$1' . ' ' . t('Encrypted content') . '" /><br />', $Text);
 
-
 	// Try to Oembed
 	if ($tryoembed) {
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[video\](.*?\.(ogg|ogv|oga|ogm|webm|mp4))\[\/video\]/ism", '<video src="$1" controls="controls" width="' . $a->videowidth . '" height="' . $a->videoheight . '"><a href="$1">$1</a></video>', $Text);
@@ -1160,7 +1211,7 @@ function bbcode($Text, $preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fa
 	// Summary (e.g. title) is required, earlier revisions only required description (in addition to
 	// start which is always required). Allow desc with a missing summary for compatibility.
 
-	if((x($ev, 'desc') || x($ev, 'summary')) && x($ev, 'start')) {
+	if ((x($ev, 'desc') || x($ev, 'summary')) && x($ev, 'start')) {
 		$sub = format_event_html($ev, $simplehtml);
 
 		$Text = preg_replace("/\[event\-summary\](.*?)\[\/event\-summary\]/ism", '', $Text);
@@ -1215,7 +1266,7 @@ function bbcode($Text, $preserve_nl = false, $tryoembed = true, $simplehtml = fa
 	$regex = '#<([^>]*?)(href)="(?!' . implode('|', $allowed_link_protocols) . ')(.*?)"(.*?)>#ism';
 	$Text = preg_replace($regex, '<$1$2="javascript:void(0)"$4 class="invalid-href" title="' . t('Invalid link protocol') . '">', $Text);
 
-	if($saved_image) {
+	if ($saved_image) {
 		$Text = bb_replace_images($Text, $saved_image);
 	}
 
diff --git a/include/cli_startup.php b/include/cli_startup.php
index 4b66b47a00..557d08c288 100644
--- a/include/cli_startup.php
+++ b/include/cli_startup.php
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ function cli_startup() {
 		require_once("dba.php");
 		$db = new dba($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
 		unset($db_host, $db_user, $db_pass, $db_data);
-  	};
+	};
 
 	require_once('include/session.php');
 
diff --git a/include/contact_selectors.php b/include/contact_selectors.php
index f5dfdc12d7..7069af0664 100644
--- a/include/contact_selectors.php
+++ b/include/contact_selectors.php
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ function contact_reputation($current) {
 		5 => t('Reputable, has my trust')
 	);
 
-	foreach($rep as $k => $v) {
+	foreach ($rep as $k => $v) {
 		$selected = (($k == $current) ? " selected=\"selected\" " : "");
 		$o .= "<option value=\"$k\" $selected >$v</option>\r\n";
 	}
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@ function contact_poll_interval($current, $disabled = false) {
 		5 => t('Monthly')
 	);
 
-	foreach($rep as $k => $v) {
+	foreach ($rep as $k => $v) {
 		$selected = (($k == $current) ? " selected=\"selected\" " : "");
 		$o .= "<option value=\"$k\" $selected >$v</option>\r\n";
 	}
diff --git a/include/contact_widgets.php b/include/contact_widgets.php
index d077a065e1..5dd3a8bb4b 100644
--- a/include/contact_widgets.php
+++ b/include/contact_widgets.php
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 function follow_widget($value = "") {
 
-	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('follow.tpl'),array(
+	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('follow.tpl'), array(
 		'$connect' => t('Add New Contact'),
 		'$desc' => t('Enter address or web location'),
 		'$hint' => t('Example: bob@example.com, http://example.com/barbara'),
@@ -13,20 +13,20 @@ function follow_widget($value = "") {
 }
 
 function findpeople_widget() {
-	require_once('include/Contact.php');
+	require_once 'include/Contact.php';
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
-	if(get_config('system','invitation_only')) {
-		$x = get_pconfig(local_user(),'system','invites_remaining');
-		if($x || is_site_admin()) {
+	if (get_config('system', 'invitation_only')) {
+		$x = get_pconfig(local_user(), 'system', 'invites_remaining');
+		if ($x || is_site_admin()) {
 			$a->page['aside'] .= '<div class="side-link" id="side-invite-remain">'
-			. sprintf( tt('%d invitation available','%d invitations available',$x), $x)
+			. sprintf( tt('%d invitation available', '%d invitations available', $x), $x)
 			. '</div>' . $inv;
 		}
 	}
 
-	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('peoplefind.tpl'),array(
+	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('peoplefind.tpl'), array(
 		'$findpeople' => t('Find People'),
 		'$desc' => t('Enter name or interest'),
 		'$label' => t('Connect/Follow'),
@@ -45,32 +45,41 @@ function unavailable_networks() {
 
 	$networks = array();
 
-	if (!plugin_enabled("appnet"))
+	if (!plugin_enabled("appnet")) {
 		$networks[] = NETWORK_APPNET;
+	}
 
-	if (!plugin_enabled("fbpost") AND !plugin_enabled("facebook"))
+	if (!plugin_enabled("fbpost") AND !plugin_enabled("facebook")) {
 		$networks[] = NETWORK_FACEBOOK;
+	}
 
-	if (!plugin_enabled("statusnet"))
+	if (!plugin_enabled("statusnet")) {
 		$networks[] = NETWORK_STATUSNET;
+	}
 
-	if (!plugin_enabled("pumpio"))
+	if (!plugin_enabled("pumpio")) {
 		$networks[] = NETWORK_PUMPIO;
+	}
 
-	if (!plugin_enabled("twitter"))
+	if (!plugin_enabled("twitter")) {
 		$networks[] = NETWORK_TWITTER;
+	}
 
-	if (get_config("system","ostatus_disabled"))
+	if (get_config("system", "ostatus_disabled")) {
 		$networks[] = NETWORK_OSTATUS;
+	}
 
-	if (!get_config("system","diaspora_enabled"))
+	if (!get_config("system", "diaspora_enabled")) {
 		$networks[] = NETWORK_DIASPORA;
+	}
 
-	if (!plugin_enabled("pnut"))
+	if (!plugin_enabled("pnut")) {
 		$networks[] = NETWORK_PNUT;
+	}
 
-	if (!sizeof($networks))
+	if (!sizeof($networks)) {
 		return "";
+	}
 
 	$network_filter = implode("','", $networks);
 
@@ -79,7 +88,7 @@ function unavailable_networks() {
 	return $network_filter;
 }
 
-function networks_widget($baseurl,$selected = '') {
+function networks_widget($baseurl, $selected = '') {
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
@@ -87,7 +96,7 @@ function networks_widget($baseurl,$selected = '') {
 		return '';
 	}
 
-	if (!feature_enabled(local_user(),'networks')) {
+	if (!feature_enabled(local_user(), 'networks')) {
 		return '';
 	}
 
@@ -99,7 +108,7 @@ function networks_widget($baseurl,$selected = '') {
 
 	$nets = array();
 	if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
-		require_once('include/contact_selectors.php');
+		require_once 'include/contact_selectors.php';
 		foreach ($r as $rr) {
 			/// @TODO If 'network' is not there, this triggers an E_NOTICE
 			if ($rr['network']) {
@@ -108,10 +117,11 @@ function networks_widget($baseurl,$selected = '') {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if(count($nets) < 2)
+	if (count($nets) < 2) {
 		return '';
+	}
 
-	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('nets.tpl'),array(
+	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('nets.tpl'), array(
 		'$title' => t('Networks'),
 		'$desc' => '',
 		'$sel_all' => (($selected == '') ? 'selected' : ''),
@@ -122,31 +132,31 @@ function networks_widget($baseurl,$selected = '') {
 	));
 }
 
-function fileas_widget($baseurl,$selected = '') {
+function fileas_widget($baseurl, $selected = '') {
 	if (! local_user()) {
 		return '';
 	}
 
-	if (! feature_enabled(local_user(),'filing')) {
+	if (! feature_enabled(local_user(), 'filing')) {
 		return '';
 	}
 
-	$saved = get_pconfig(local_user(),'system','filetags');
+	$saved = get_pconfig(local_user(), 'system', 'filetags');
 	if (! strlen($saved)) {
 		return;
 	}
 
 	$matches = false;
 	$terms = array();
-	$cnt = preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/',$saved,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
+	$cnt = preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/', $saved, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 	if ($cnt) {
-		foreach($matches as $mtch) {
+		foreach ($matches as $mtch) {
 			$unescaped = xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1]));
-			$terms[] = array('name' => $unescaped,'selected' => (($selected == $unescaped) ? 'selected' : ''));
+			$terms[] = array('name' => $unescaped, 'selected' => (($selected == $unescaped) ? 'selected' : ''));
 		}
 	}
 
-	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('fileas_widget.tpl'),array(
+	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('fileas_widget.tpl'), array(
 		'$title' => t('Saved Folders'),
 		'$desc' => '',
 		'$sel_all' => (($selected == '') ? 'selected' : ''),
@@ -157,30 +167,31 @@ function fileas_widget($baseurl,$selected = '') {
 	));
 }
 
-function categories_widget($baseurl,$selected = '') {
+function categories_widget($baseurl, $selected = '') {
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
-	if (! feature_enabled($a->profile['profile_uid'],'categories')) {
+	if (! feature_enabled($a->profile['profile_uid'], 'categories')) {
 		return '';
 	}
 
-	$saved = get_pconfig($a->profile['profile_uid'],'system','filetags');
+	$saved = get_pconfig($a->profile['profile_uid'], 'system', 'filetags');
 	if (! strlen($saved)) {
 		return;
 	}
 
 	$matches = false;
 	$terms = array();
-        $cnt = preg_match_all('/<(.*?)>/',$saved,$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
-        if($cnt) {
-                foreach($matches as $mtch) {
-		        $unescaped = xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1]));
-			$terms[] = array('name' => $unescaped,'selected' => (($selected == $unescaped) ? 'selected' : ''));
+	$cnt = preg_match_all('/<(.*?)>/', $saved, $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
+
+	if ($cnt) {
+		foreach ($matches as $mtch) {
+			$unescaped = xmlify(file_tag_decode($mtch[1]));
+			$terms[] = array('name' => $unescaped, 'selected' => (($selected == $unescaped) ? 'selected' : ''));
 		}
 	}
 
-	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('categories_widget.tpl'),array(
+	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('categories_widget.tpl'), array(
 		'$title' => t('Categories'),
 		'$desc' => '',
 		'$sel_all' => (($selected == '') ? 'selected' : ''),
@@ -195,29 +206,30 @@ function common_friends_visitor_widget($profile_uid) {
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
-	if(local_user() == $profile_uid)
+	if (local_user() == $profile_uid) {
 		return;
+	}
 
 	$cid = $zcid = 0;
 
-	if(is_array($_SESSION['remote'])) {
-		foreach($_SESSION['remote'] as $visitor) {
-			if($visitor['uid'] == $profile_uid) {
+	if (is_array($_SESSION['remote'])) {
+		foreach ($_SESSION['remote'] as $visitor) {
+			if ($visitor['uid'] == $profile_uid) {
 				$cid = $visitor['cid'];
 				break;
 			}
 		}
 	}
 
-	if(! $cid) {
-		if(get_my_url()) {
+	if (! $cid) {
+		if (get_my_url()) {
 			$r = q("select id from contact where nurl = '%s' and uid = %d limit 1",
 				dbesc(normalise_link(get_my_url())),
 				intval($profile_uid)
 			);
-			if (dbm::is_result($r))
+			if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$cid = $r[0]['id'];
-			else {
+			} else {
 				$r = q("select id from gcontact where nurl = '%s' limit 1",
 					dbesc(normalise_link(get_my_url()))
 				);
@@ -227,22 +239,26 @@ function common_friends_visitor_widget($profile_uid) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if($cid == 0 && $zcid == 0)
+	if ($cid == 0 && $zcid == 0) {
 		return;
+	}
 
-	require_once('include/socgraph.php');
+	require_once 'include/socgraph.php';
 
-	if($cid)
-		$t = count_common_friends($profile_uid,$cid);
-	else
-		$t = count_common_friends_zcid($profile_uid,$zcid);
-	if(! $t)
+	if ($cid) {
+		$t = count_common_friends($profile_uid, $cid);
+	} else {
+		$t = count_common_friends_zcid($profile_uid, $zcid);
+	}
+	if (! $t) {
 		return;
+	}
 
-	if($cid)
-		$r = common_friends($profile_uid,$cid,0,5,true);
-	else
-		$r = common_friends_zcid($profile_uid,$zcid,0,5,true);
+	if ($cid) {
+		$r = common_friends($profile_uid, $cid, 0, 5, true);
+	} else {
+		$r = common_friends_zcid($profile_uid, $zcid, 0, 5, true);
+	}
 
 	return replace_macros(get_markup_template('remote_friends_common.tpl'), array(
 		'$desc' =>  sprintf( tt("%d contact in common", "%d contacts in common", $t), $t),
diff --git a/include/conversation.php b/include/conversation.php
index 93c42cd7b1..64204c696f 100644
--- a/include/conversation.php
+++ b/include/conversation.php
@@ -1,13 +1,15 @@
 <?php
 
-require_once("include/bbcode.php");
-require_once("include/acl_selectors.php");
+require_once "include/bbcode.php";
+require_once "include/acl_selectors.php";
 
 
-// Note: the code in 'item_extract_images' and 'item_redir_and_replace_images'
-// is identical to the code in mod/message.php for 'item_extract_images' and
-// 'item_redir_and_replace_images'
-if(! function_exists('item_extract_images')) {
+/*
+ * Note: the code in 'item_extract_images' and 'item_redir_and_replace_images'
+ * is identical to the code in mod/message.php for 'item_extract_images' and
+ * 'item_redir_and_replace_images'
+ */
+if (! function_exists('item_extract_images')) {
 function item_extract_images($body) {
 
 	$saved_image = array();
@@ -18,26 +20,28 @@ function item_extract_images($body) {
 	$img_start = strpos($orig_body, '[img');
 	$img_st_close = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), ']') : false);
 	$img_end = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), '[/img]') : false);
-	while(($img_st_close !== false) && ($img_end !== false)) {
+	while (($img_st_close !== false) && ($img_end !== false)) {
 
 		$img_st_close++; // make it point to AFTER the closing bracket
 		$img_end += $img_start;
 
-		if(! strcmp(substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close, 5), 'data:')) {
+		if (! strcmp(substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close, 5), 'data:')) {
 			// This is an embedded image
 
 			$saved_image[$cnt] = substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close, $img_end - ($img_start + $img_st_close));
 			$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, 0, $img_start) . '[!#saved_image' . $cnt . '#!]';
 
 			$cnt++;
-		}
-		else
+		} else {
 			$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, 0, $img_end + strlen('[/img]'));
+		}
 
 		$orig_body = substr($orig_body, $img_end + strlen('[/img]'));
 
-		if($orig_body === false) // in case the body ends on a closing image tag
+		if ($orig_body === false) {
+			// in case the body ends on a closing image tag
 			$orig_body = '';
+		}
 
 		$img_start = strpos($orig_body, '[img');
 		$img_st_close = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), ']') : false);
@@ -49,7 +53,7 @@ function item_extract_images($body) {
 	return array('body' => $new_body, 'images' => $saved_image);
 }}
 
-if(! function_exists('item_redir_and_replace_images')) {
+if (! function_exists('item_redir_and_replace_images')) {
 function item_redir_and_replace_images($body, $images, $cid) {
 
 	$origbody = $body;
@@ -57,7 +61,7 @@ function item_redir_and_replace_images($body, $images, $cid) {
 
 	$cnt = 1;
 	$pos = get_bb_tag_pos($origbody, 'url', 1);
-	while($pos !== false && $cnt < 1000) {
+	while ($pos !== false && $cnt < 1000) {
 
 		$search = '/\[url\=(.*?)\]\[!#saved_image([0-9]*)#!\]\[\/url\]' . '/is';
 		$replace = '[url=' . z_path() . '/redir/' . $cid
@@ -66,8 +70,9 @@ function item_redir_and_replace_images($body, $images, $cid) {
 		$newbody .= substr($origbody, 0, $pos['start']['open']);
 		$subject = substr($origbody, $pos['start']['open'], $pos['end']['close'] - $pos['start']['open']);
 		$origbody = substr($origbody, $pos['end']['close']);
-		if($origbody === false)
+		if ($origbody === false) {
 			$origbody = '';
+		}
 
 		$subject = preg_replace($search, $replace, $subject);
 		$newbody .= $subject;
@@ -79,45 +84,51 @@ function item_redir_and_replace_images($body, $images, $cid) {
 
 	$cnt = 0;
 	foreach ($images as $image) {
-		// We're depending on the property of 'foreach' (specified on the PHP website) that
-		// it loops over the array starting from the first element and going sequentially
-		// to the last element
+		/*
+		 * We're depending on the property of 'foreach' (specified on the PHP website) that
+		 * it loops over the array starting from the first element and going sequentially
+		 * to the last element.
+		 */
 		$newbody = str_replace('[!#saved_image' . $cnt . '#!]', '[img]' . $image . '[/img]', $newbody);
 		$cnt++;
 	}
 	return $newbody;
 }}
 
-
-
 /**
  * Render actions localized
  */
-function localize_item(&$item){
+function localize_item(&$item) {
 
 	$extracted = item_extract_images($item['body']);
-	if($extracted['images'])
+	if ($extracted['images']) {
 		$item['body'] = item_redir_and_replace_images($extracted['body'], $extracted['images'], $item['contact-id']);
+	}
 
-	$xmlhead="<"."?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?".">";
-	if (activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_LIKE)
-		|| activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_DISLIKE)
-		|| activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_ATTEND)
-		|| activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_ATTENDNO)
-		|| activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_ATTENDMAYBE)){
+	/// @Separted ???
+	$xmlhead = "<" . "?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?" . ">";
+	if (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_LIKE)
+		|| activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_DISLIKE)
+		|| activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_ATTEND)
+		|| activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_ATTENDNO)
+		|| activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_ATTENDMAYBE)) {
 
-		$r = q("SELECT * from `item`,`contact` WHERE
-				`item`.`contact-id`=`contact`.`id` AND `item`.`uri`='%s';",
-				 dbesc($item['parent-uri']));
-		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) return;
-		$obj=$r[0];
+		/// @TODO may hurt performance
+		$r = q("SELECT * FROM `item`, `contact`
+			WHERE `item`.`contact-id`=`contact`.`id`
+			AND `item`.`uri`='%s'",
+			dbesc($item['parent-uri']));
+		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
+			return;
+		}
+		$obj = $r[0];
 
 		$author  = '[url=' . $item['author-link'] . ']' . $item['author-name'] . '[/url]';
 		$objauthor =  '[url=' . $obj['author-link'] . ']' . $obj['author-name'] . '[/url]';
 
-		switch($obj['verb']){
+		switch ($obj['verb']) {
 			case ACTIVITY_POST:
-				switch ($obj['object-type']){
+				switch ($obj['object-type']) {
 					case ACTIVITY_OBJ_EVENT:
 						$post_type = t('event');
 						break;
@@ -126,9 +137,10 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 				}
 				break;
 			default:
-				if($obj['resource-id']){
+				if ($obj['resource-id']) {
 					$post_type = t('photo');
-					$m=array(); preg_match("/\[url=([^]]*)\]/", $obj['body'], $m);
+					$m = array();
+					preg_match("/\[url=([^]]*)\]/", $obj['body'], $m);
 					$rr['plink'] = $m[1];
 				} else {
 					$post_type = t('status');
@@ -137,25 +149,25 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 
 		$plink = '[url=' . $obj['plink'] . ']' . $post_type . '[/url]';
 
-		if(activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_LIKE)) {
+		if (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_LIKE)) {
 			$bodyverb = t('%1$s likes %2$s\'s %3$s');
 		}
-		elseif(activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_DISLIKE)) {
+		elseif (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_DISLIKE)) {
 			$bodyverb = t('%1$s doesn\'t like %2$s\'s %3$s');
 		}
-		elseif(activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_ATTEND)) {
+		elseif (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_ATTEND)) {
 			$bodyverb = t('%1$s attends %2$s\'s %3$s');
 		}
-		elseif(activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_ATTENDNO)) {
+		elseif (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_ATTENDNO)) {
 			$bodyverb = t('%1$s doesn\'t attend %2$s\'s %3$s');
 		}
-		elseif(activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_ATTENDMAYBE)) {
+		elseif (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_ATTENDMAYBE)) {
 			$bodyverb = t('%1$s attends maybe %2$s\'s %3$s');
 		}
 		$item['body'] = sprintf($bodyverb, $author, $objauthor, $plink);
 
 	}
-	if (activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_FRIEND)) {
+	if (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_FRIEND)) {
 
 		if ($item['object-type']=="" || $item['object-type']!== ACTIVITY_OBJ_PERSON) return;
 
@@ -169,57 +181,65 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 
 		$Bname = $obj->title;
 		$Blink = ""; $Bphoto = "";
-		foreach ($links->link as $l){
+		foreach ($links->link as $l) {
 			$atts = $l->attributes();
-			switch($atts['rel']){
+			switch ($atts['rel']) {
 				case "alternate": $Blink = $atts['href'];
 				case "photo": $Bphoto = $atts['href'];
 			}
-
 		}
 
 		$A = '[url=' . zrl($Alink) . ']' . $Aname . '[/url]';
 		$B = '[url=' . zrl($Blink) . ']' . $Bname . '[/url]';
-		if ($Bphoto!="") $Bphoto = '[url=' . zrl($Blink) . '][img]' . $Bphoto . '[/img][/url]';
+		if ($Bphoto != "") {
+			$Bphoto = '[url=' . zrl($Blink) . '][img]' . $Bphoto . '[/img][/url]';
+		}
 
 		$item['body'] = sprintf( t('%1$s is now friends with %2$s'), $A, $B)."\n\n\n".$Bphoto;
 
 	}
-	if (stristr($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_POKE)) {
+	if (stristr($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_POKE)) {
 		$verb = urldecode(substr($item['verb'],strpos($item['verb'],'#')+1));
-		if(! $verb)
+		if (! $verb) {
 			return;
-		if ($item['object-type']=="" || $item['object-type']!== ACTIVITY_OBJ_PERSON) return;
+		}
+		if ($item['object-type']=="" || $item['object-type']!== ACTIVITY_OBJ_PERSON) {
+			return;
+		}
 
 		$Aname = $item['author-name'];
 		$Alink = $item['author-link'];
 
-		$xmlhead="<"."?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?".">";
+		$xmlhead = "<" . "?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?" . ">";
 
 		$obj = parse_xml_string($xmlhead.$item['object']);
 		$links = parse_xml_string($xmlhead."<links>".unxmlify($obj->link)."</links>");
 
 		$Bname = $obj->title;
-		$Blink = ""; $Bphoto = "";
-		foreach ($links->link as $l){
+		$Blink = "";
+		$Bphoto = "";
+		foreach ($links->link as $l) {
 			$atts = $l->attributes();
-			switch($atts['rel']){
+			switch ($atts['rel']) {
 				case "alternate": $Blink = $atts['href'];
 				case "photo": $Bphoto = $atts['href'];
 			}
-
 		}
 
 		$A = '[url=' . zrl($Alink) . ']' . $Aname . '[/url]';
 		$B = '[url=' . zrl($Blink) . ']' . $Bname . '[/url]';
-		if ($Bphoto!="") $Bphoto = '[url=' . zrl($Blink) . '][img=80x80]' . $Bphoto . '[/img][/url]';
+		if ($Bphoto != "") {
+			$Bphoto = '[url=' . zrl($Blink) . '][img=80x80]' . $Bphoto . '[/img][/url]';
+		}
 
-		// we can't have a translation string with three positions but no distinguishable text
-		// So here is the translate string.
+		/*
+		 * we can't have a translation string with three positions but no distinguishable text
+		 * So here is the translate string.
+		 */
 		$txt = t('%1$s poked %2$s');
 
 		// now translate the verb
-		$poked_t = trim(sprintf($txt, "",""));
+		$poked_t = trim(sprintf($txt, "", ""));
 		$txt = str_replace( $poked_t, t($verb), $txt);
 
 		// then do the sprintf on the translation string
@@ -227,10 +247,11 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 		$item['body'] = sprintf($txt, $A, $B). "\n\n\n" . $Bphoto;
 
 	}
-	if (stristr($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_MOOD)) {
-		$verb = urldecode(substr($item['verb'],strpos($item['verb'],'#')+1));
-		if(! $verb)
+	if (stristr($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_MOOD)) {
+		$verb = urldecode(substr($item['verb'], strpos($item['verb'], '#') + 1));
+		if (! $verb) {
 			return;
+		}
 
 		$Aname = $item['author-name'];
 		$Alink = $item['author-link'];
@@ -241,19 +262,25 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 		$item['body'] = sprintf($txt, $A, t($verb));
 	}
 
-	if (activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_TAG)) {
-		$r = q("SELECT * from `item`,`contact` WHERE
-		`item`.`contact-id`=`contact`.`id` AND `item`.`uri`='%s';",
-		 dbesc($item['parent-uri']));
-		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) return;
-		$obj=$r[0];
+	if (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_TAG)) {
+		/// @TODO may hurt performance "joining" two tables + asterisk
+		$r = q("SELECT * FROM `item`, `contact`
+			WHERE `item`.`contact-id`=`contact`.`id`
+			AND `item`.`uri`='%s'",
+			dbesc($item['parent-uri']));
+
+		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
+			return;
+		}
+
+		$obj = $r[0];
 
 		$author  = '[url=' . zrl($item['author-link']) . ']' . $item['author-name'] . '[/url]';
 		$objauthor =  '[url=' . zrl($obj['author-link']) . ']' . $obj['author-name'] . '[/url]';
 
-		switch($obj['verb']){
+		switch ($obj['verb']) {
 			case ACTIVITY_POST:
-				switch ($obj['object-type']){
+				switch ($obj['object-type']) {
 					case ACTIVITY_OBJ_EVENT:
 						$post_type = t('event');
 						break;
@@ -262,13 +289,15 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 				}
 				break;
 			default:
-				if($obj['resource-id']){
+				if ($obj['resource-id']) {
 					$post_type = t('photo');
 					$m=array(); preg_match("/\[url=([^]]*)\]/", $obj['body'], $m);
 					$rr['plink'] = $m[1];
 				} else {
 					$post_type = t('status');
 				}
+				// Let's break everthing ... ;-)
+				break;
 		}
 		$plink = '[url=' . $obj['plink'] . ']' . $post_type . '[/url]';
 
@@ -278,22 +307,24 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 		$item['body'] = sprintf( t('%1$s tagged %2$s\'s %3$s with %4$s'), $author, $objauthor, $plink, $tag );
 
 	}
-	if (activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_FAVORITE)){
+	if (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_FAVORITE)) {
 
-		if ($item['object-type']== "")
+		if ($item['object-type'] == "") {
 			return;
+		}
 
 		$Aname = $item['author-name'];
 		$Alink = $item['author-link'];
 
-		$xmlhead="<"."?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?".">";
+		$xmlhead = "<" . "?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?" . ">";
 
 		$obj = parse_xml_string($xmlhead.$item['object']);
-		if(strlen($obj->id)) {
-			$r = q("select * from item where uri = '%s' and uid = %d limit 1",
+		if (strlen($obj->id)) {
+			$r = q("SELECT * FROM `item` WHERE `uri` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 					dbesc($obj->id),
 					intval($item['uid'])
 			);
+
 			if (dbm::is_result($r) && $r[0]['plink']) {
 				$target = $r[0];
 				$Bname = $target['author-name'];
@@ -302,21 +333,21 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 				$B = '[url=' . zrl($Blink) . ']' . $Bname . '[/url]';
 				$P = '[url=' . $target['plink'] . ']' . t('post/item') . '[/url]';
 				$item['body'] = sprintf( t('%1$s marked %2$s\'s %3$s as favorite'), $A, $B, $P)."\n";
-
 			}
 		}
 	}
 	$matches = null;
-	if(preg_match_all('/@\[url=(.*?)\]/is',$item['body'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER)) {
-		foreach($matches as $mtch) {
-			if(! strpos($mtch[1],'zrl='))
-				$item['body'] = str_replace($mtch[0],'@[url=' . zrl($mtch[1]). ']',$item['body']);
+	if (preg_match_all('/@\[url=(.*?)\]/is', $item['body'], $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER)) {
+		foreach ($matches as $mtch) {
+			if (! strpos($mtch[1], 'zrl=')) {
+				$item['body'] = str_replace($mtch[0], '@[url=' . zrl($mtch[1]) . ']', $item['body']);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
 	// add zrl's to public images
 	$photo_pattern = "/\[url=(.*?)\/photos\/(.*?)\/image\/(.*?)\]\[img(.*?)\]h(.*?)\[\/img\]\[\/url\]/is";
-	if(preg_match($photo_pattern,$item['body'])) {
+	if (preg_match($photo_pattern, $item['body'])) {
 		$photo_replace = '[url=' . zrl('$1' . '/photos/' . '$2' . '/image/' . '$3' ,true) . '][img' . '$4' . ']h' . '$5'  . '[/img][/url]';
 		$item['body'] = bb_tag_preg_replace($photo_pattern, $photo_replace, 'url', $item['body']);
 	}
@@ -326,27 +357,26 @@ function localize_item(&$item){
 	$x = stristr($item['plink'],'/display/');
 	if ($x) {
 		$sparkle = false;
-		$y = best_link_url($item,$sparkle,true);
+		$y = best_link_url($item, $sparkle, true);
 
-		if (strstr($y,'/redir/')) {
+		if (strstr($y, '/redir/')) {
 			$item['plink'] = $y . '?f=&url=' . $item['plink'];
 		}
 	}
-
-
-
 }
 
 /**
  * Count the total of comments on this item and its desendants
+ * @TODO proper type-hint + doc-tag
  */
 function count_descendants($item) {
 	$total = count($item['children']);
 
-	if($total > 0) {
-		foreach($item['children'] as $child) {
-			if(! visible_activity($child))
+	if ($total > 0) {
+		foreach ($item['children'] as $child) {
+			if (! visible_activity($child)) {
 				$total --;
+			}
 			$total += count_descendants($child);
 		}
 	}
@@ -356,18 +386,19 @@ function count_descendants($item) {
 
 function visible_activity($item) {
 
-	// likes (etc.) can apply to other things besides posts. Check if they are post children,
-	// in which case we handle them specially
-
+	/*
+	 * likes (etc.) can apply to other things besides posts. Check if they are post children,
+	 * in which case we handle them specially
+	 */
 	$hidden_activities = array(ACTIVITY_LIKE, ACTIVITY_DISLIKE, ACTIVITY_ATTEND, ACTIVITY_ATTENDNO, ACTIVITY_ATTENDMAYBE);
-	foreach($hidden_activities as $act) {
-		if(activity_match($item['verb'],$act)) {
+	foreach ($hidden_activities as $act) {
+		if (activity_match($item['verb'], $act)) {
 			return false;
 		}
 	}
 
-	if(activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_FOLLOW) && $item['object-type'] === ACTIVITY_OBJ_NOTE) {
-		if(! (($item['self']) && ($item['uid'] == local_user()))) {
+	if (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_FOLLOW) && $item['object-type'] === ACTIVITY_OBJ_NOTE) {
+		if (! (($item['self']) && ($item['uid'] == local_user()))) {
 			return false;
 		}
 	}
@@ -379,9 +410,8 @@ function visible_activity($item) {
  * @brief SQL query for items
  */
 function item_query() {
-
-	return "SELECT ".item_fieldlists()." FROM `item` ".
-		item_joins()." WHERE ".item_condition();
+	return "SELECT " . item_fieldlists() . " FROM `item` " .
+		item_joins() . " WHERE " . item_condition();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -439,7 +469,6 @@ These Fields are not added below (yet). They are here to for bug search.
  * @brief SQL join for contacts that are needed for displaying items
  */
 function item_joins() {
-
 	return "STRAIGHT_JOIN `contact` ON `contact`.`id` = `item`.`contact-id` AND
 		(NOT `contact`.`blocked` OR `contact`.`pending`)
 		LEFT JOIN `contact` AS `author` ON `author`.`id`=`item`.`author-id`
@@ -450,10 +479,10 @@ function item_joins() {
  * @brief SQL condition for items that are needed for displaying items
  */
 function item_condition() {
-
 	return "`item`.`visible` AND NOT `item`.`deleted` AND NOT `item`.`moderated`";
 }
 
+if (!function_exists('conversation')) {
 /**
  * "Render" a conversation or list of items for HTML display.
  * There are two major forms of display:
@@ -464,13 +493,11 @@ function item_condition() {
  * that are based on unique features of the calling module.
  *
  */
-
-if(!function_exists('conversation')) {
 function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 
-	require_once('include/bbcode.php');
-	require_once('include/Contact.php');
-	require_once('mod/proxy.php');
+	require_once 'include/bbcode.php';
+	require_once 'include/Contact.php';
+	require_once 'mod/proxy.php';
 
 	$ssl_state = ((local_user()) ? true : false);
 
@@ -480,100 +507,100 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 
 	$arr_blocked = null;
 
-	if(local_user()) {
-		$str_blocked = get_pconfig(local_user(),'system','blocked');
-		if($str_blocked) {
-			$arr_blocked = explode(',',$str_blocked);
-			for($x = 0; $x < count($arr_blocked); $x ++)
+	if (local_user()) {
+		$str_blocked = get_pconfig(local_user(), 'system', 'blocked');
+		if ($str_blocked) {
+			$arr_blocked = explode(',', $str_blocked);
+			for ($x = 0; $x < count($arr_blocked); $x ++) {
 				$arr_blocked[$x] = trim($arr_blocked[$x]);
+			}
 		}
 
 	}
 
 	$previewing = (($preview) ? ' preview ' : '');
 
-	if($mode === 'network') {
+	if ($mode === 'network') {
 		$profile_owner = local_user();
 		$page_writeable = true;
-		if(!$update) {
-			// The special div is needed for liveUpdate to kick in for this page.
-			// We only launch liveUpdate if you aren't filtering in some incompatible
-			// way and also you aren't writing a comment (discovered in javascript).
-
+		if (!$update) {
+			/*
+			 * The special div is needed for liveUpdate to kick in for this page.
+			 * We only launch liveUpdate if you aren't filtering in some incompatible
+			 * way and also you aren't writing a comment (discovered in javascript).
+			 */
 			$live_update_div = '<div id="live-network"></div>' . "\r\n"
 				. "<script> var profile_uid = " . $_SESSION['uid']
-				. "; var netargs = '" . substr($a->cmd,8)
+				. "; var netargs = '" . substr($a->cmd, 8)
 				. '?f='
-				. ((x($_GET,'cid'))    ? '&cid='    . $_GET['cid']    : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'search')) ? '&search=' . $_GET['search'] : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'star'))   ? '&star='   . $_GET['star']   : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'order'))  ? '&order='  . $_GET['order']  : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'bmark'))  ? '&bmark='  . $_GET['bmark']  : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'liked'))  ? '&liked='  . $_GET['liked']  : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'conv'))   ? '&conv='   . $_GET['conv']   : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'spam'))   ? '&spam='   . $_GET['spam']   : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'nets'))   ? '&nets='   . $_GET['nets']   : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'cmin'))   ? '&cmin='   . $_GET['cmin']   : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'cmax'))   ? '&cmax='   . $_GET['cmax']   : '')
-				. ((x($_GET,'file'))   ? '&file='   . $_GET['file']   : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'cid'))    ? '&cid='    . $_GET['cid']    : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'search')) ? '&search=' . $_GET['search'] : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'star'))   ? '&star='   . $_GET['star']   : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'order'))  ? '&order='  . $_GET['order']  : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'bmark'))  ? '&bmark='  . $_GET['bmark']  : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'liked'))  ? '&liked='  . $_GET['liked']  : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'conv'))   ? '&conv='   . $_GET['conv']   : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'spam'))   ? '&spam='   . $_GET['spam']   : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'nets'))   ? '&nets='   . $_GET['nets']   : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'cmin'))   ? '&cmin='   . $_GET['cmin']   : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'cmax'))   ? '&cmax='   . $_GET['cmax']   : '')
+				. ((x($_GET, 'file'))   ? '&file='   . $_GET['file']   : '')
 
 				. "'; var profile_page = " . $a->pager['page'] . "; </script>\r\n";
 		}
-	}
-	else if($mode === 'profile') {
+	} elseif ($mode === 'profile') {
 		$profile_owner = $a->profile['profile_uid'];
 		$page_writeable = can_write_wall($a,$profile_owner);
 
-		if(!$update) {
+		if (!$update) {
 			$tab = notags(trim($_GET['tab']));
 			$tab = ( $tab ? $tab : 'posts' );
-			if($tab === 'posts') {
-				// This is ugly, but we can't pass the profile_uid through the session to the ajax updater,
-				// because browser prefetching might change it on us. We have to deliver it with the page.
+			if ($tab === 'posts') {
+				/*
+				 * This is ugly, but we can't pass the profile_uid through the session to the ajax updater,
+				 * because browser prefetching might change it on us. We have to deliver it with the page.
+				 */
 
 				$live_update_div = '<div id="live-profile"></div>' . "\r\n"
 					. "<script> var profile_uid = " . $a->profile['profile_uid']
 					. "; var netargs = '?f='; var profile_page = " . $a->pager['page'] . "; </script>\r\n";
 			}
 		}
-	}
-	else if($mode === 'notes') {
+	} elseif ($mode === 'notes') {
 		$profile_owner = local_user();
 		$page_writeable = true;
-		if(!$update) {
+		if (!$update) {
 			$live_update_div = '<div id="live-notes"></div>' . "\r\n"
 				. "<script> var profile_uid = " . local_user()
 				. "; var netargs = '/?f='; var profile_page = " . $a->pager['page'] . "; </script>\r\n";
 		}
-	}
-	else if($mode === 'display') {
+	} elseif ($mode === 'display') {
 		$profile_owner = $a->profile['uid'];
 		$page_writeable = can_write_wall($a,$profile_owner);
-		if(!$update) {
+		if (!$update) {
 			$live_update_div = '<div id="live-display"></div>' . "\r\n"
 				. "<script> var profile_uid = " . $_SESSION['uid'] . ";"
 				. " var profile_page = 1; </script>";
 		}
-	}
-	else if($mode === 'community') {
+	} elseif ($mode === 'community') {
 		$profile_owner = 0;
 		$page_writeable = false;
-		if(!$update) {
+		if (!$update) {
 			$live_update_div = '<div id="live-community"></div>' . "\r\n"
 				. "<script> var profile_uid = -1; var netargs = '/?f='; var profile_page = " . $a->pager['page'] . "; </script>\r\n";
 		}
-	}
-	else if($mode === 'search') {
+	} elseif ($mode === 'search') {
 		$live_update_div = '<div id="live-search"></div>' . "\r\n";
 	}
 
 	$page_dropping = ((local_user() && local_user() == $profile_owner) ? true : false);
 
 
-	if($update)
+	if ($update) {
 		$return_url = $_SESSION['return_url'];
-	else
+	} else {
 		$return_url = $_SESSION['return_url'] = $a->query_string;
+	}
 
 	$cb = array('items' => $items, 'mode' => $mode, 'update' => $update, 'preview' => $preview);
 	call_hooks('conversation_start',$cb);
@@ -594,28 +621,32 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 
 	$page_template = get_markup_template("conversation.tpl");
 
-	if($items && count($items)) {
+	if ($items && count($items)) {
 
-		if($mode === 'network-new' || $mode === 'search' || $mode === 'community') {
+		if ($mode === 'network-new' || $mode === 'search' || $mode === 'community') {
 
-			// "New Item View" on network page or search page results
-			// - just loop through the items and format them minimally for display
+			/*
+			 * "New Item View" on network page or search page results
+			 * - just loop through the items and format them minimally for display
+			 */
 
-//			$tpl = get_markup_template('search_item.tpl');
+			/// @TODO old lost code?
+			// $tpl = get_markup_template('search_item.tpl');
 			$tpl = 'search_item.tpl';
 
-			foreach($items as $item) {
+			foreach ($items as $item) {
 
-				if($arr_blocked) {
+				if ($arr_blocked) {
 					$blocked = false;
-					foreach($arr_blocked as $b) {
-						if($b && link_compare($item['author-link'],$b)) {
+					foreach ($arr_blocked as $b) {
+						if ($b && link_compare($item['author-link'], $b)) {
 							$blocked = true;
 							break;
 						}
 					}
-					if($blocked)
+					if ($blocked) {
 						continue;
+					}
 				}
 
 
@@ -626,70 +657,76 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 				$owner_name  = '';
 				$sparkle     = '';
 
-				if($mode === 'search' || $mode === 'community') {
-					if(((activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_LIKE)) || (activity_match($item['verb'],ACTIVITY_DISLIKE)))
+				if ($mode === 'search' || $mode === 'community') {
+					if (((activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_LIKE)) || (activity_match($item['verb'], ACTIVITY_DISLIKE)))
 						&& ($item['id'] != $item['parent']))
 						continue;
 					$nickname = $item['nickname'];
-				}
-				else
+				} else {
 					$nickname = $a->user['nickname'];
+				}
 
 				// prevent private email from leaking.
-				if($item['network'] === NETWORK_MAIL && local_user() != $item['uid'])
-						continue;
+				if ($item['network'] === NETWORK_MAIL && local_user() != $item['uid']) {
+					continue;
+				}
 
-				$profile_name   = ((strlen($item['author-name']))   ? $item['author-name']   : $item['name']);
-				if($item['author-link'] && (! $item['author-name']))
+				$profile_name = ((strlen($item['author-name'])) ? $item['author-name'] : $item['name']);
+				if ($item['author-link'] && (! $item['author-name'])) {
 					$profile_name = $item['author-link'];
+				}
 
-
-
-				$tags=array();
+				$tags = array();
 				$hashtags = array();
 				$mentions = array();
 
 				$taglist = q("SELECT `type`, `term`, `url` FROM `term` WHERE `otype` = %d AND `oid` = %d AND `type` IN (%d, %d) ORDER BY `tid`",
 						intval(TERM_OBJ_POST), intval($item['id']), intval(TERM_HASHTAG), intval(TERM_MENTION));
 
-				foreach($taglist as $tag) {
+				foreach ($taglist as $tag) {
 
-					if ($tag["url"] == "")
-						$tag["url"] = $searchpath.strtolower($tag["term"]);
+					if ($tag["url"] == "") {
+						$tag["url"] = $searchpath . strtolower($tag["term"]);
+					}
 
 					if ($tag["type"] == TERM_HASHTAG) {
-						$hashtags[] = "#<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+						$hashtags[] = "#<a href=\"" . $tag["url"] . "\" target=\"_blank\">" . $tag["term"] . "</a>";
 						$prefix = "#";
 					} elseif ($tag["type"] == TERM_MENTION) {
-						$mentions[] = "@<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+						$mentions[] = "@<a href=\"" . $tag["url"] . "\" target=\"_blank\">" . $tag["term"] . "</a>";
 						$prefix = "@";
 					}
-					$tags[] = $prefix."<a href=\"".$tag["url"]."\" target=\"_blank\">".$tag["term"]."</a>";
+					$tags[] = $prefix."<a href=\"" . $tag["url"] . "\" target=\"_blank\">" . $tag["term"] . "</a>";
 				}
 
 				$sp = false;
 				$profile_link = best_link_url($item,$sp);
-				if($profile_link === 'mailbox')
+				if ($profile_link === 'mailbox') {
 					$profile_link = '';
-				if($sp)
-					$sparkle = ' sparkle';
-				else
-					$profile_link = zrl($profile_link);
+				}
 
-				if (!isset($item['author-thumb']) OR ($item['author-thumb'] == "")) {
+				if ($sp) {
+					$sparkle = ' sparkle';
+				} else {
+					$profile_link = zrl($profile_link);
+				}
+
+				if (!x($item, 'author-thumb') OR ($item['author-thumb'] == "")) {
 					$author_contact = get_contact_details_by_url($item['author-link'], $profile_owner);
-					if ($author_contact["thumb"])
+					if ($author_contact["thumb"]) {
 						$item['author-thumb'] = $author_contact["thumb"];
-					else
+					} else {
 						$item['author-thumb'] = $item['author-avatar'];
+					}
 				}
 
 				if (!isset($item['owner-thumb']) OR ($item['owner-thumb'] == "")) {
 					$owner_contact = get_contact_details_by_url($item['owner-link'], $profile_owner);
-					if ($owner_contact["thumb"])
+					if ($owner_contact["thumb"]) {
 						$item['owner-thumb'] = $owner_contact["thumb"];
-					else
+					} else {
 						$item['owner-thumb'] = $item['owner-avatar'];
+					}
 				}
 
 				$locate = array('location' => $item['location'], 'coord' => $item['coord'], 'html' => '');
@@ -698,11 +735,11 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 				$location = ((strlen($locate['html'])) ? $locate['html'] : render_location_dummy($locate));
 
 				localize_item($item);
-				if($mode === 'network-new')
+				if ($mode === 'network-new') {
 					$dropping = true;
-				else
+				} else {
 					$dropping = false;
-
+				}
 
 				$drop = array(
 					'dropping' => $dropping,
@@ -718,12 +755,11 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 				$likebuttons = false;
 				$shareable = false;
 
-				$body = prepare_body($item,true, $preview);
-
+				$body = prepare_body($item, true, $preview);
 
 				list($categories, $folders) = get_cats_and_terms($item);
 
-				if($a->theme['template_engine'] === 'internal') {
+				if ($a->theme['template_engine'] === 'internal') {
 					$profile_name_e = template_escape($profile_name);
 					$item['title_e'] = template_escape($item['title']);
 					$body_e = template_escape($body);
@@ -732,8 +768,7 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 					$mentions_e = template_escape($mentions);
 					$location_e = template_escape($location);
 					$owner_name_e = template_escape($owner_name);
-				}
-				else {
+				} else {
 					$profile_name_e = $profile_name;
 					$item['title_e'] = $item['title'];
 					$body_e = $body;
@@ -744,8 +779,9 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 					$owner_name_e = $owner_name;
 				}
 
-				if ($item['item_network'] == "")
+				if ($item['item_network'] == "") {
 					$item['item_network'] = $item['network'];
+				}
 
 				$tmp_item = array(
 					'template' => $tpl,
@@ -802,47 +838,45 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 				$threads[$threadsid]['items'] = array($arr['output']);
 
 			}
-		}
-		else
-		{
+		} else {
 			// Normal View
 			$page_template = get_markup_template("threaded_conversation.tpl");
 
-			require_once('object/Conversation.php');
-			require_once('object/Item.php');
+			require_once 'object/Conversation.php';
+			require_once 'object/Item.php';
 
 			$conv = new Conversation($mode, $preview);
 
-			// get all the topmost parents
-			// this shouldn't be needed, as we should have only them in our array
-			// But for now, this array respects the old style, just in case
-
+			/*
+			 * get all the topmost parents
+			 * this shouldn't be needed, as we should have only them in our array
+			 * But for now, this array respects the old style, just in case
+			 */
 			$threads = array();
-			foreach($items as $item) {
+			foreach ($items as $item) {
 
-				if($arr_blocked) {
+				if ($arr_blocked) {
 					$blocked = false;
-					foreach($arr_blocked as $b) {
-
-						if($b && link_compare($item['author-link'],$b)) {
+					foreach ($arr_blocked as $b) {
+						if ($b && link_compare($item['author-link'], $b)) {
 							$blocked = true;
 							break;
 						}
 					}
-					if($blocked)
+					if ($blocked) {
 						continue;
+					}
 				}
 
-
-
 				// Can we put this after the visibility check?
 				builtin_activity_puller($item, $conv_responses);
 
 				// Only add what is visible
-				if($item['network'] === NETWORK_MAIL && local_user() != $item['uid']) {
+				if ($item['network'] === NETWORK_MAIL && local_user() != $item['uid']) {
 					continue;
 				}
-				if(! visible_activity($item)) {
+
+				if (! visible_activity($item)) {
 					continue;
 				}
 
@@ -850,7 +884,7 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 
 				$item['pagedrop'] = $page_dropping;
 
-				if($item['id'] == $item['parent']) {
+				if ($item['id'] == $item['parent']) {
 					$item_object = new Item($item);
 					$conv->add_thread($item_object);
 				}
@@ -858,7 +892,7 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 
 			$threads = $conv->get_template_data($conv_responses);
 
-			if(!$threads) {
+			if (!$threads) {
 				logger('[ERROR] conversation : Failed to get template data.', LOGGER_DEBUG);
 				$threads = array();
 			}
@@ -873,13 +907,13 @@ function conversation(App $a, $items, $mode, $update, $preview = false) {
 		'$mode' => $mode,
 		'$user' => $a->user,
 		'$threads' => $threads,
-		'$dropping' => ($page_dropping && feature_enabled(local_user(),'multi_delete') ? t('Delete Selected Items') : False),
+		'$dropping' => ($page_dropping && feature_enabled(local_user(), 'multi_delete') ? t('Delete Selected Items') : False),
 	));
 
 	return $o;
 }}
 
-function best_link_url($item,&$sparkle,$ssl_state = false) {
+function best_link_url($item, &$sparkle, $ssl_state = false) {
 
 	$best_url = '';
 	$sparkle  = false;
@@ -889,16 +923,17 @@ function best_link_url($item,&$sparkle,$ssl_state = false) {
 	if (local_user()) {
 		$r = q("SELECT `id` FROM `contact` WHERE `network` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d AND `nurl` = '%s' AND NOT `pending` LIMIT 1",
 			dbesc(NETWORK_DFRN), intval(local_user()), dbesc(normalise_link($clean_url)));
-		if ($r) {
-			$best_url = 'redir/'.$r[0]['id'];
+		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
+			$best_url = 'redir/' . $r[0]['id'];
 			$sparkle = true;
 		}
 	}
-	if(! $best_url) {
-		if(strlen($item['author-link']))
+	if (! $best_url) {
+		if (strlen($item['author-link'])) {
 			$best_url = $item['author-link'];
-		else
+		} else {
 			$best_url = $item['url'];
+		}
 	}
 
 	return $best_url;
@@ -906,11 +941,10 @@ function best_link_url($item,&$sparkle,$ssl_state = false) {
 
 
 if (! function_exists('item_photo_menu')) {
-function item_photo_menu($item)
-{
+function item_photo_menu($item) {
 	$ssl_state = false;
 
-	if(local_user()) {
+	if (local_user()) {
 		$ssl_state = true;
 	}
 
@@ -938,13 +972,13 @@ function item_photo_menu($item)
 	$rel = 0;
 	$r = q("SELECT `id`, `network`, `rel` FROM `contact` WHERE `uid` = %d AND `nurl` = '%s' LIMIT 1",
 		intval(local_user()), dbesc(normalise_link($item['author-link'])));
-	if ($r) {
+	if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 		$cid = $r[0]['id'];
 		$network = $r[0]['network'];
 		$rel = $r[0]['rel'];
 	}
 
-	if($sparkle) {
+	if ($sparkle) {
 		$status_link = $profile_link . '?url=status';
 		$photos_link = $profile_link . '?url=photos';
 		$profile_link = $profile_link . '?url=profile';
@@ -964,7 +998,7 @@ function item_photo_menu($item)
 	}
 
 	if (local_user()) {
-		$menu = Array(
+		$menu = array(
 			t('Follow Thread') => $sub_link,
 			t('View Status') => $status_link,
 			t('View Profile') => $profile_link,
@@ -1004,6 +1038,7 @@ function item_photo_menu($item)
 	return $o;
 }}
 
+if (! function_exists('builtin_activity_puller')) {
 /**
  * @brief Checks item to see if it is one of the builtin activities (like/dislike, event attendance, consensus items, etc.)
  * Increments the count of each matching activity and adds a link to the author as needed.
@@ -1012,13 +1047,12 @@ function item_photo_menu($item)
  * @param array &$conv_responses (already created with builtin activity structure)
  * @return void
  */
-if(! function_exists('builtin_activity_puller')) {
 function builtin_activity_puller($item, &$conv_responses) {
-	foreach($conv_responses as $mode => $v) {
+	foreach ($conv_responses as $mode => $v) {
 		$url = '';
 		$sparkle = '';
 
-		switch($mode) {
+		switch ($mode) {
 			case 'like':
 				$verb = ACTIVITY_LIKE;
 				break;
@@ -1039,32 +1073,36 @@ function builtin_activity_puller($item, &$conv_responses) {
 				break;
 		}
 
-		if((activity_match($item['verb'], $verb)) && ($item['id'] != $item['parent'])) {
+		if ((activity_match($item['verb'], $verb)) && ($item['id'] != $item['parent'])) {
 			$url = $item['author-link'];
-			if((local_user()) && (local_user() == $item['uid']) && ($item['network'] === NETWORK_DFRN) && (! $item['self']) && (link_compare($item['author-link'],$item['url']))) {
+			if ((local_user()) && (local_user() == $item['uid']) && ($item['network'] === NETWORK_DFRN) && (! $item['self']) && (link_compare($item['author-link'], $item['url']))) {
 				$url = 'redir/' . $item['contact-id'];
 				$sparkle = ' class="sparkle" ';
-			}
-			else
+			} else {
 				$url = zrl($url);
+			}
 
 			$url = '<a href="'. $url . '"'. $sparkle .'>' . htmlentities($item['author-name']) . '</a>';
 
-			if(! $item['thr-parent'])
+			if (! $item['thr-parent']) {
 				$item['thr-parent'] = $item['parent-uri'];
+			}
 
-			if(! ((isset($conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent'] . '-l']))
-				&& (is_array($conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent'] . '-l']))))
+			if (! ((isset($conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent'] . '-l']))
+				&& (is_array($conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent'] . '-l'])))) {
 				$conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent'] . '-l'] = array();
+			}
 
 			// only list each unique author once
-			if(in_array($url,$conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent'] . '-l']))
+			if (in_array($url,$conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent'] . '-l'])) {
 				continue;
+			}
 
-			if(! isset($conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent']]))
+			if (! isset($conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent']])) {
 				$conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent']] = 1;
-			else
+			} else {
 				$conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent']] ++;
+			}
 
 			if (public_contact() == $item['author-id']) {
 				$conv_responses[$mode][$item['thr-parent'] . '-self'] = 1;
@@ -1078,24 +1116,25 @@ function builtin_activity_puller($item, &$conv_responses) {
 	}
 }}
 
-// Format the vote text for a profile item
-// $cnt = number of people who vote the item
-// $arr = array of pre-linked names of likers/dislikers
-// $type = one of 'like, 'dislike', 'attendyes', 'attendno', 'attendmaybe'
-// $id  = item id
-// returns formatted text
-
-if(! function_exists('format_like')) {
-function format_like($cnt,$arr,$type,$id) {
+if (! function_exists('format_like')) {
+/**
+ * Format the vote text for a profile item
+ * @param int $cnt = number of people who vote the item
+ * @param array $arr = array of pre-linked names of likers/dislikers
+ * @param string $type = one of 'like, 'dislike', 'attendyes', 'attendno', 'attendmaybe'
+ * @param int $id  = item id
+ * @return formatted text
+ */
+function format_like($cnt, array $arr, $type, $id) {
 	$o = '';
 	$expanded = '';
 
-	if($cnt == 1) {
+	if ($cnt == 1) {
 		$likers = $arr[0];
 
 		// Phrase if there is only one liker. In other cases it will be uses for the expanded
 		// list which show all likers
-		switch($type) {
+		switch ($type) {
 			case 'like' :
 				$phrase = sprintf( t('%s likes this.'), $likers);
 				break;
@@ -1114,16 +1153,17 @@ function format_like($cnt,$arr,$type,$id) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if($cnt > 1) {
+	if ($cnt > 1) {
 		$total = count($arr);
-		if($total >= MAX_LIKERS)
+		if ($total >= MAX_LIKERS) {
 			$arr = array_slice($arr, 0, MAX_LIKERS - 1);
-		if($total < MAX_LIKERS) {
+		}
+		if ($total < MAX_LIKERS) {
 			$last = t('and') . ' ' . $arr[count($arr)-1];
 			$arr2 = array_slice($arr, 0, -1);
 			$str = implode(', ', $arr2) . ' ' . $last;
 		}
-		if($total >= MAX_LIKERS) {
+		if ($total >= MAX_LIKERS) {
 			$str = implode(', ', $arr);
 			$str .= sprintf( t(', and %d other people'), $total - MAX_LIKERS );
 		}
@@ -1132,7 +1172,7 @@ function format_like($cnt,$arr,$type,$id) {
 
 		$spanatts = "class=\"fakelink\" onclick=\"openClose('{$type}list-$id');\"";
 
-		switch($type) {
+		switch ($type) {
 			case 'like':
 				$phrase = sprintf( t('<span  %1$s>%2$d people</span> like this'), $spanatts, $cnt);
 				$explikers = sprintf( t('%s like this.'), $likers);
@@ -1169,11 +1209,10 @@ function format_like($cnt,$arr,$type,$id) {
 	return $o;
 }}
 
-
-function status_editor($a,$x, $notes_cid = 0, $popup=false) {
+function status_editor(App $a, $x, $notes_cid = 0, $popup = false) {
 	$o = '';
 
-	$geotag = (($x['allow_location']) ? replace_macros(get_markup_template('jot_geotag.tpl'), array()) : '');
+	$geotag = (x($x, 'allow_location') ? replace_macros(get_markup_template('jot_geotag.tpl'), array()) : '');
 
 	$tpl = get_markup_template('jot-header.tpl');
 	$a->page['htmlhead'] .= replace_macros($tpl, array(
@@ -1211,24 +1250,27 @@ function status_editor($a,$x, $notes_cid = 0, $popup=false) {
 
 	// Private/public post links for the non-JS ACL form
 	$private_post = 1;
-	if($_REQUEST['public'])
+	if (x($_REQUEST, 'public')) {
 		$private_post = 0;
+	}
 
 	$query_str = $a->query_string;
-	if(strpos($query_str, 'public=1') !== false)
+	if (strpos($query_str, 'public=1') !== false) {
 		$query_str = str_replace(array('?public=1', '&public=1'), array('', ''), $query_str);
+	}
 
-	// I think $a->query_string may never have ? in it, but I could be wrong
-	// It looks like it's from the index.php?q=[etc] rewrite that the web
-	// server does, which converts any ? to &, e.g. suggest&ignore=61 for suggest?ignore=61
-	if(strpos($query_str, '?') === false)
+	/*
+	 * I think $a->query_string may never have ? in it, but I could be wrong
+	 * It looks like it's from the index.php?q=[etc] rewrite that the web
+	 * server does, which converts any ? to &, e.g. suggest&ignore=61 for suggest?ignore=61
+	 */
+	if (strpos($query_str, '?') === false) {
 		$public_post_link = '?public=1';
-	else
+	} else {
 		$public_post_link = '&public=1';
+	}
 
-
-
-//	$tpl = replace_macros($tpl,array('$jotplugins' => $jotplugins));
+	// $tpl = replace_macros($tpl,array('$jotplugins' => $jotplugins));
 	$tpl = get_markup_template("jot.tpl");
 
 	$o .= replace_macros($tpl,array(
@@ -1252,7 +1294,7 @@ function status_editor($a,$x, $notes_cid = 0, $popup=false) {
 		'$title' => $x['title'],
 		'$placeholdertitle' => t('Set title'),
 		'$category' => $x['category'],
-		'$placeholdercategory' => (feature_enabled(local_user(),'categories') ? t('Categories (comma-separated list)') : ''),
+		'$placeholdercategory' => (feature_enabled(local_user(), 'categories') ? t('Categories (comma-separated list)') : ''),
 		'$wait' => t('Please wait'),
 		'$permset' => t('Permission settings'),
 		'$shortpermset' => t('permissions'),
@@ -1290,9 +1332,8 @@ function status_editor($a,$x, $notes_cid = 0, $popup=false) {
 	));
 
 
-	if ($popup==true){
+	if ($popup == true) {
 		$o = '<div id="jot-popup" style="display: none;">'.$o.'</div>';
-
 	}
 
 	return $o;
@@ -1302,20 +1343,20 @@ function status_editor($a,$x, $notes_cid = 0, $popup=false) {
 function get_item_children($arr, $parent) {
 	$children = array();
 	$a = get_app();
-	foreach($arr as $item) {
-		if($item['id'] != $item['parent']) {
-			if(get_config('system','thread_allow') && $a->theme_thread_allow) {
+	foreach ($arr as $item) {
+		if ($item['id'] != $item['parent']) {
+			if (get_config('system', 'thread_allow') && $a->theme_thread_allow) {
 				// Fallback to parent-uri if thr-parent is not set
 				$thr_parent = $item['thr-parent'];
-				if($thr_parent == '')
+				if ($thr_parent == '') {
 					$thr_parent = $item['parent-uri'];
+				}
 
-				if($thr_parent == $parent['uri']) {
+				if ($thr_parent == $parent['uri']) {
 					$item['children'] = get_item_children($arr, $item);
 					$children[] = $item;
 				}
-			}
-			else if($item['parent'] == $parent['id']) {
+			} elseif ($item['parent'] == $parent['id']) {
 				$children[] = $item;
 			}
 		}
@@ -1323,66 +1364,82 @@ function get_item_children($arr, $parent) {
 	return $children;
 }
 
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
 function sort_item_children($items) {
 	$result = $items;
-	usort($result,'sort_thr_created_rev');
-	foreach($result as $k => $i) {
-		if(count($result[$k]['children'])) {
+	usort($result, 'sort_thr_created_rev');
+	foreach ($result as $k => $i) {
+		if (count($result[$k]['children'])) {
 			$result[$k]['children'] = sort_item_children($result[$k]['children']);
 		}
 	}
 	return $result;
 }
 
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
 function add_children_to_list($children, &$arr) {
-	foreach($children as $y) {
+	foreach ($children as $y) {
 		$arr[] = $y;
-		if(count($y['children']))
+		if (count($y['children'])) {
 			add_children_to_list($y['children'], $arr);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
-function conv_sort($arr,$order) {
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
+function conv_sort($arr, $order) {
 
-	if((!(is_array($arr) && count($arr))))
+	if ((!(is_array($arr) && count($arr)))) {
 		return array();
+	}
 
 	$parents = array();
 	$children = array();
 	$newarr = array();
 
-	// This is a preparation for having two different items with the same uri in one thread
-	// This will otherwise lead to an endless loop.
-	foreach($arr as $x)
-		if (!isset($newarr[$x['uri']]))
+	/*
+	 * This is a preparation for having two different items with the same uri in one thread
+	 * This will otherwise lead to an endless loop.
+	 */
+	foreach ($arr as $x) {
+		if (!isset($newarr[$x['uri']])) {
 			$newarr[$x['uri']] = $x;
+		}
+	}
 
 	$arr = $newarr;
 
-	foreach($arr as $x)
-		if($x['id'] == $x['parent'])
-				$parents[] = $x;
+	foreach ($arr as $x) {
+		if ($x['id'] == $x['parent']) {
+			$parents[] = $x;
+		}
+	}
 
-	if(stristr($order,'created'))
-		usort($parents,'sort_thr_created');
-	elseif(stristr($order,'commented'))
-		usort($parents,'sort_thr_commented');
+	if (stristr($order, 'created')) {
+		usort($parents, 'sort_thr_created');
+	} elseif (stristr($order, 'commented')) {
+		usort($parents, 'sort_thr_commented');
+	}
 
-	if(count($parents))
-		foreach($parents as $i=>$_x)
+	if (count($parents)) {
+		foreach ($parents as $i => $_x) {
 			$parents[$i]['children'] = get_item_children($arr, $_x);
+		}
+	}
 
-	/*foreach($arr as $x) {
-		if($x['id'] != $x['parent']) {
+	/// @TODO Old-lost code?
+	/*foreach ($arr as $x) {
+		if ($x['id'] != $x['parent']) {
 			$p = find_thread_parent_index($parents,$x);
-			if($p !== false)
+			if ($p !== false)
 				$parents[$p]['children'][] = $x;
 		}
 	}*/
-	if(count($parents)) {
-		foreach($parents as $k => $v) {
-			if(count($parents[$k]['children'])) {
+	if (count($parents)) {
+		foreach ($parents as $k => $v) {
+			if (count($parents[$k]['children'])) {
 				$parents[$k]['children'] = sort_item_children($parents[$k]['children']);
+				/// @TODO Old-lost code?
 				/*$y = $parents[$k]['children'];
 				usort($y,'sort_thr_created_rev');
 				$parents[$k]['children'] = $y;*/
@@ -1391,92 +1448,103 @@ function conv_sort($arr,$order) {
 	}
 
 	$ret = array();
-	if(count($parents)) {
-		foreach($parents as $x) {
+	if (count($parents)) {
+		foreach ($parents as $x) {
 			$ret[] = $x;
-			if(count($x['children']))
+			if (count($x['children'])) {
 				add_children_to_list($x['children'], $ret);
-				/*foreach($x['children'] as $y)
+				/// @TODO Old-lost code?
+				/*foreach ($x['children'] as $y)
 					$ret[] = $y;*/
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
 	return $ret;
 }
 
-
-function sort_thr_created($a,$b) {
-	return strcmp($b['created'],$a['created']);
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
+function sort_thr_created($a, $b) {
+	return strcmp($b['created'], $a['created']);
 }
 
-function sort_thr_created_rev($a,$b) {
-	return strcmp($a['created'],$b['created']);
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
+function sort_thr_created_rev($a, $b) {
+	return strcmp($a['created'], $b['created']);
 }
 
-function sort_thr_commented($a,$b) {
-	return strcmp($b['commented'],$a['commented']);
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
+function sort_thr_commented($a, $b) {
+	return strcmp($b['commented'], $a['commented']);
 }
 
-function find_thread_parent_index($arr,$x) {
-	foreach($arr as $k => $v)
-		if($v['id'] == $x['parent'])
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
+function find_thread_parent_index($arr, $x) {
+	foreach ($arr as $k => $v) {
+		if ($v['id'] == $x['parent']) {
 			return $k;
+		}
+	}
 	return false;
 }
 
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
 function render_location_dummy($item) {
-	if ($item['location'] != "")
+	if ($item['location'] != "") {
 		return $item['location'];
+	}
 
-	if ($item['coord'] != "")
+	if ($item['coord'] != "") {
 		return $item['coord'];
+	}
 }
 
-function get_responses($conv_responses,$response_verbs,$ob,$item) {
+/// @TODO Add type-hint
+function get_responses($conv_responses, $response_verbs, $ob, $item) {
 	$ret = array();
-	foreach($response_verbs as $v) {
+	foreach ($response_verbs as $v) {
 		$ret[$v] = array();
-		$ret[$v]['count'] = ((x($conv_responses[$v],$item['uri'])) ? $conv_responses[$v][$item['uri']] : '');
-		$ret[$v]['list']  = ((x($conv_responses[$v],$item['uri'])) ? $conv_responses[$v][$item['uri'] . '-l'] : '');
-		$ret[$v]['self']  = ((x($conv_responses[$v],$item['uri'])) ? $conv_responses[$v][$item['uri'] . '-self'] : '0');
-		if(count($ret[$v]['list']) > MAX_LIKERS) {
+		$ret[$v]['count'] = ((x($conv_responses[$v], $item['uri'])) ? $conv_responses[$v][$item['uri']] : '');
+		$ret[$v]['list']  = ((x($conv_responses[$v], $item['uri'])) ? $conv_responses[$v][$item['uri'] . '-l'] : '');
+		$ret[$v]['self']  = ((x($conv_responses[$v], $item['uri'])) ? $conv_responses[$v][$item['uri'] . '-self'] : '0');
+		if (count($ret[$v]['list']) > MAX_LIKERS) {
 			$ret[$v]['list_part'] = array_slice($ret[$v]['list'], 0, MAX_LIKERS);
 			array_push($ret[$v]['list_part'], '<a href="#" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#' . $v . 'Modal-'
 				. (($ob) ? $ob->get_id() : $item['id']) . '"><b>' . t('View all') . '</b></a>');
-		}
-		else {
+		} else {
 			$ret[$v]['list_part'] = '';
 		}
-		$ret[$v]['button'] = get_response_button_text($v,$ret[$v]['count']);
+		$ret[$v]['button'] = get_response_button_text($v, $ret[$v]['count']);
 		$ret[$v]['title'] = $conv_responses[$v]['title'];
 	}
 
 	$count = 0;
-	foreach($ret as $key) {
-		if ($key['count'] == true)
+	foreach ($ret as $key) {
+		if ($key['count'] == true) {
 			$count++;
+		}
 	}
 	$ret['count'] = $count;
 
 	return $ret;
 }
 
-function get_response_button_text($v,$count) {
-	switch($v) {
+function get_response_button_text($v, $count) {
+	switch ($v) {
 		case 'like':
-			return tt('Like','Likes',$count,'noun');
+			return tt('Like', 'Likes', $count, 'noun');
 			break;
 		case 'dislike':
-			return tt('Dislike','Dislikes',$count,'noun');
+			return tt('Dislike', 'Dislikes', $count, 'noun');
 			break;
 		case 'attendyes':
-			return tt('Attending','Attending',$count,'noun');
+			return tt('Attending', 'Attending', $count, 'noun');
 			break;
 		case 'attendno':
-			return tt('Not Attending','Not Attending',$count,'noun');
+			return tt('Not Attending', 'Not Attending', $count, 'noun');
 			break;
 		case 'attendmaybe':
-			return tt('Undecided','Undecided',$count,'noun');
+			return tt('Undecided', 'Undecided', $count, 'noun');
 			break;
 	}
 }
diff --git a/include/cron.php b/include/cron.php
index 58a3fcf9ce..c4299dd4c2 100644
--- a/include/cron.php
+++ b/include/cron.php
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 function cron_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 	global $a;
 
-	require_once('include/datetime.php');
+	require_once 'include/datetime.php';
 
 	// Poll contacts with specific parameters
 	if ($argc > 1) {
@@ -12,15 +12,16 @@ function cron_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 		return;
 	}
 
-	$last = get_config('system','last_cron');
+	$last = get_config('system', 'last_cron');
 
-	$poll_interval = intval(get_config('system','cron_interval'));
+	$poll_interval = intval(get_config('system', 'cron_interval'));
 	if (! $poll_interval) {
 		$poll_interval = 10;
 	}
+
 	if ($last) {
 		$next = $last + ($poll_interval * 60);
-		if($next > time()) {
+		if ($next > time()) {
 			logger('cron intervall not reached');
 			return;
 		}
@@ -62,10 +63,10 @@ function cron_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 	proc_run(PRIORITY_LOW, "include/cronjobs.php", "repair_database");
 
 	// once daily run birthday_updates and then expire in background
-	$d1 = get_config('system','last_expire_day');
-	$d2 = intval(datetime_convert('UTC','UTC','now','d'));
+	$d1 = get_config('system', 'last_expire_day');
+	$d2 = intval(datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', 'now', 'd'));
 
-	if($d2 != intval($d1)) {
+	if ($d2 != intval($d1)) {
 
 		proc_run(PRIORITY_LOW, "include/cronjobs.php", "update_contact_birthdays");
 
@@ -73,7 +74,7 @@ function cron_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 
 		proc_run(PRIORITY_LOW, "include/discover_poco.php", "suggestions");
 
-		set_config('system','last_expire_day',$d2);
+		set_config('system', 'last_expire_day', $d2);
 
 		proc_run(PRIORITY_LOW, 'include/expire.php');
 
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ function cron_run(&$argv, &$argc){
 
 	logger('cron: end');
 
-	set_config('system','last_cron', time());
+	set_config('system', 'last_cron', time());
 
 	return;
 }
@@ -130,7 +131,7 @@ function cron_poll_contacts($argc, $argv) {
 	// and which have a polling address and ignore Diaspora since
 	// we are unable to match those posts with a Diaspora GUID and prevent duplicates.
 
-	$abandon_days = intval(get_config('system','account_abandon_days'));
+	$abandon_days = intval(get_config('system', 'account_abandon_days'));
 	if ($abandon_days < 1) {
 		$abandon_days = 0;
 	}
@@ -156,7 +157,7 @@ function cron_poll_contacts($argc, $argv) {
 		dbesc(NETWORK_MAIL2)
 	);
 
-	if (!count($contacts)) {
+	if (!dbm::is_result($contacts)) {
 		return;
 	}
 
@@ -170,7 +171,7 @@ function cron_poll_contacts($argc, $argv) {
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		foreach($res as $contact) {
+		foreach ($res as $contact) {
 
 			$xml = false;
 
@@ -183,49 +184,48 @@ function cron_poll_contacts($argc, $argv) {
 			}
 
 			if ($contact['subhub'] AND in_array($contact['network'], array(NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_ZOT, NETWORK_OSTATUS))) {
-				// We should be getting everything via a hub. But just to be sure, let's check once a day.
-				// (You can make this more or less frequent if desired by setting 'pushpoll_frequency' appropriately)
-				// This also lets us update our subscription to the hub, and add or replace hubs in case it
-				// changed. We will only update hubs once a day, regardless of 'pushpoll_frequency'.
-
-				$poll_interval = get_config('system','pushpoll_frequency');
+				/*
+				 * We should be getting everything via a hub. But just to be sure, let's check once a day.
+				 * (You can make this more or less frequent if desired by setting 'pushpoll_frequency' appropriately)
+				 * This also lets us update our subscription to the hub, and add or replace hubs in case it
+				 * changed. We will only update hubs once a day, regardless of 'pushpoll_frequency'.
+				 */
+				$poll_interval = get_config('system', 'pushpoll_frequency');
 				$contact['priority'] = (($poll_interval !== false) ? intval($poll_interval) : 3);
 			}
 
-			if($contact['priority'] AND !$force) {
-
-				$update     = false;
+			if ($contact['priority'] AND !$force) {
+				$update = false;
 
 				$t = $contact['last-update'];
 
-				/**
+				/*
 				 * Based on $contact['priority'], should we poll this site now? Or later?
 				 */
-
 				switch ($contact['priority']) {
 					case 5:
-						if (datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $t . " + 1 month")) {
+						if (datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', $t . " + 1 month")) {
 							$update = true;
 						}
 						break;
 					case 4:
-						if (datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $t . " + 1 week")) {
+						if (datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', $t . " + 1 week")) {
 							$update = true;
 						}
 						break;
 					case 3:
-						if (datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $t . " + 1 day")) {
+						if (datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', $t . " + 1 day")) {
 							$update = true;
 						}
 						break;
 					case 2:
-						if (datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $t . " + 12 hour")) {
+						if (datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', $t . " + 12 hour")) {
 							$update = true;
 						}
 						break;
 					case 1:
 					default:
-						if (datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $t . " + 1 hour")) {
+						if (datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', 'now') > datetime_convert('UTC', 'UTC', $t . " + 1 hour")) {
 							$update = true;
 						}
 						break;
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ function cron_poll_contacts($argc, $argv) {
 				}
 			}
 
-			logger("Polling ".$contact["network"]." ".$contact["id"]." ".$contact["nick"]." ".$contact["name"]);
+			logger("Polling " . $contact["network"] . " " . $contact["id"] . " " . $contact["nick"] . " " . $contact["name"]);
 
 			if (($contact['network'] == NETWORK_FEED) AND ($contact['priority'] <= 3)) {
 				proc_run(PRIORITY_MEDIUM, 'include/onepoll.php', intval($contact['id']));
diff --git a/include/cronhooks.php b/include/cronhooks.php
index bea0f6a198..a519dee224 100644
--- a/include/cronhooks.php
+++ b/include/cronhooks.php
@@ -2,43 +2,45 @@
 
 use \Friendica\Core\Config;
 
-function cronhooks_run(&$argv, &$argc){
+function cronhooks_run(&$argv, &$argc) {
 	global $a;
 
-	require_once('include/datetime.php');
+	require_once 'include/datetime.php';
 
 	if (($argc == 2) AND is_array($a->hooks) AND array_key_exists("cron", $a->hooks)) {
-                foreach ($a->hooks["cron"] as $hook)
+		foreach ($a->hooks["cron"] as $hook) {
 			if ($hook[1] == $argv[1]) {
-				logger("Calling cron hook '".$hook[1]."'", LOGGER_DEBUG);
+				logger("Calling cron hook '" . $hook[1] . "'", LOGGER_DEBUG);
 				call_single_hook($a, $name, $hook, $data);
 			}
+		}
 		return;
 	}
 
 	$last = get_config('system', 'last_cronhook');
 
-	$poll_interval = intval(get_config('system','cronhook_interval'));
-	if(! $poll_interval)
+	$poll_interval = intval(get_config('system', 'cronhook_interval'));
+	if (! $poll_interval) {
 		$poll_interval = 9;
+	}
 
-	if($last) {
+	if ($last) {
 		$next = $last + ($poll_interval * 60);
-		if($next > time()) {
+		if ($next > time()) {
 			logger('cronhook intervall not reached');
 			return;
 		}
 	}
 
-	$a->set_baseurl(get_config('system','url'));
+	$a->set_baseurl(get_config('system', 'url'));
 
 	logger('cronhooks: start');
 
 	$d = datetime_convert();
 
 	if (is_array($a->hooks) AND array_key_exists("cron", $a->hooks)) {
-                foreach ($a->hooks["cron"] as $hook) {
-			logger("Calling cronhooks for '".$hook[1]."'", LOGGER_DEBUG);
+		foreach ($a->hooks["cron"] as $hook) {
+			logger("Calling cronhooks for '" . $hook[1] . "'", LOGGER_DEBUG);
 			proc_run(PRIORITY_MEDIUM, "include/cronhooks.php", $hook[1]);
 		}
 	}
diff --git a/include/dfrn.php b/include/dfrn.php
index 09688586a3..7221d52a20 100644
--- a/include/dfrn.php
+++ b/include/dfrn.php
@@ -554,8 +554,9 @@ class dfrn {
 			xml::add_element($doc, $author, "poco:displayName", $profile["name"]);
 			xml::add_element($doc, $author, "poco:updated", $namdate);
 
-			if (trim($profile["dob"]) > '0001-01-01')
+			if (trim($profile["dob"]) > '0001-01-01') {
 				xml::add_element($doc, $author, "poco:birthday", "0000-".date("m-d", strtotime($profile["dob"])));
+			}
 
 			xml::add_element($doc, $author, "poco:note", $profile["about"]);
 			xml::add_element($doc, $author, "poco:preferredUsername", $profile["nickname"]);
diff --git a/include/items.php b/include/items.php
index f3885d21f9..2500e08d54 100644
--- a/include/items.php
+++ b/include/items.php
@@ -6,31 +6,33 @@
 
 use \Friendica\ParseUrl;
 
-require_once('include/bbcode.php');
-require_once('include/oembed.php');
-require_once('include/salmon.php');
-require_once('include/crypto.php');
-require_once('include/Photo.php');
-require_once('include/tags.php');
-require_once('include/files.php');
-require_once('include/text.php');
-require_once('include/email.php');
-require_once('include/threads.php');
-require_once('include/socgraph.php');
-require_once('include/plaintext.php');
-require_once('include/ostatus.php');
-require_once('include/feed.php');
-require_once('include/Contact.php');
-require_once('mod/share.php');
-require_once('include/enotify.php');
-require_once('include/dfrn.php');
-require_once('include/group.php');
+require_once 'include/bbcode.php';
+require_once 'include/oembed.php';
+require_once 'include/salmon.php';
+require_once 'include/crypto.php';
+require_once 'include/Photo.php';
+require_once 'include/tags.php';
+require_once 'include/files.php';
+require_once 'include/text.php';
+require_once 'include/email.php';
+require_once 'include/threads.php';
+require_once 'include/socgraph.php';
+require_once 'include/plaintext.php';
+require_once 'include/ostatus.php';
+require_once 'include/feed.php';
+require_once 'include/Contact.php';
+require_once 'mod/share.php';
+require_once 'include/enotify.php';
+require_once 'include/dfrn.php';
+require_once 'include/group.php';
 
-require_once('library/defuse/php-encryption-1.2.1/Crypto.php');
+/// @TODO one day with composer autoloader no more needed
+require_once 'library/defuse/php-encryption-1.2.1/Crypto.php';
 
 function construct_verb($item) {
-	if ($item['verb'])
+	if ($item['verb']) {
 		return $item['verb'];
+	}
 	return ACTIVITY_POST;
 }
 
@@ -60,7 +62,7 @@ function limit_body_size($body) {
 		$img_start = strpos($orig_body, '[img');
 		$img_st_close = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), ']') : false);
 		$img_end = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), '[/img]') : false);
-		while(($img_st_close !== false) && ($img_end !== false)) {
+		while (($img_st_close !== false) && ($img_end !== false)) {
 
 			$img_st_close++; // make it point to AFTER the closing bracket
 			$img_end += $img_start;
@@ -69,7 +71,7 @@ function limit_body_size($body) {
 			if (! strcmp(substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close, 5), 'data:')) {
 				// This is an embedded image
 
-				if ( ($textlen + $img_start) > $maxlen ) {
+				if (($textlen + $img_start) > $maxlen ) {
 					if ($textlen < $maxlen) {
 						logger('limit_body_size: the limit happens before an embedded image', LOGGER_DEBUG);
 						$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, 0, $maxlen - $textlen);
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ function limit_body_size($body) {
 				$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, $img_start, $img_end - $img_start);
 			} else {
 
-				if ( ($textlen + $img_end) > $maxlen ) {
+				if (($textlen + $img_end) > $maxlen ) {
 					if ($textlen < $maxlen) {
 						logger('limit_body_size: the limit happens before the end of a non-embedded image', LOGGER_DEBUG);
 						$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, 0, $maxlen - $textlen);
@@ -96,15 +98,17 @@ function limit_body_size($body) {
 			}
 			$orig_body = substr($orig_body, $img_end);
 
-			if ($orig_body === false) // in case the body ends on a closing image tag
+			if ($orig_body === false) {
+				// in case the body ends on a closing image tag
 				$orig_body = '';
+			}
 
 			$img_start = strpos($orig_body, '[img');
 			$img_st_close = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), ']') : false);
 			$img_end = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), '[/img]') : false);
 		}
 
-		if ( ($textlen + strlen($orig_body)) > $maxlen) {
+		if (($textlen + strlen($orig_body)) > $maxlen) {
 			if ($textlen < $maxlen) {
 				logger('limit_body_size: the limit happens after the end of the last image', LOGGER_DEBUG);
 				$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, 0, $maxlen - $textlen);
@@ -117,8 +121,9 @@ function limit_body_size($body) {
 		}
 
 		return $new_body;
-	} else
+	} else {
 		return $body;
+	}
 }}
 
 function title_is_body($title, $body) {
@@ -126,15 +131,16 @@ function title_is_body($title, $body) {
 	$title = strip_tags($title);
 	$title = trim($title);
 	$title = html_entity_decode($title, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
-	$title = str_replace(array("\n", "\r", "\t", " "), array("","","",""), $title);
+	$title = str_replace(array("\n", "\r", "\t", " "), array("", "", "", ""), $title);
 
 	$body = strip_tags($body);
 	$body = trim($body);
 	$body = html_entity_decode($body, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
-	$body = str_replace(array("\n", "\r", "\t", " "), array("","","",""), $body);
+	$body = str_replace(array("\n", "\r", "\t", " "), array("", "", "", ""), $body);
 
-	if (strlen($title) < strlen($body))
+	if (strlen($title) < strlen($body)) {
 		$body = substr($body, 0, strlen($title));
+	}
 
 	if (($title != $body) and (substr($title, -3) == "...")) {
 		$pos = strrpos($title, "...");
@@ -144,7 +150,7 @@ function title_is_body($title, $body) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	return($title == $body);
+	return ($title == $body);
 }
 
 function add_page_info_data($data) {
@@ -212,8 +218,8 @@ function add_page_info_data($data) {
 		foreach ($data["keywords"] AS $keyword) {
 			/// @todo make a positive list of allowed characters
 			$hashtag = str_replace(array(" ", "+", "/", ".", "#", "'", "’", "`", "(", ")", "„", "“"),
-						array("","", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""), $keyword);
-			$hashtags .= "#[url=".App::get_baseurl()."/search?tag=".rawurlencode($hashtag)."]".$hashtag."[/url] ";
+						array("", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", "", ""), $keyword);
+			$hashtags .= "#[url=" . App::get_baseurl() . "/search?tag=" . rawurlencode($hashtag) . "]" . $hashtag . "[/url] ";
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -224,25 +230,28 @@ function query_page_info($url, $no_photos = false, $photo = "", $keywords = fals
 
 	$data = ParseUrl::getSiteinfoCached($url, true);
 
-	if ($photo != "")
+	if ($photo != "") {
 		$data["images"][0]["src"] = $photo;
+	}
 
-	logger('fetch page info for '.$url.' '.print_r($data, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
+	logger('fetch page info for ' . $url . ' ' . print_r($data, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
-	if (!$keywords AND isset($data["keywords"]))
+	if (!$keywords AND isset($data["keywords"])) {
 		unset($data["keywords"]);
+	}
 
 	if (($keyword_blacklist != "") AND isset($data["keywords"])) {
-		$list = explode(",", $keyword_blacklist);
+		$list = explode(", ", $keyword_blacklist);
 		foreach ($list AS $keyword) {
 			$keyword = trim($keyword);
 			$index = array_search($keyword, $data["keywords"]);
-			if ($index !== false)
+			if ($index !== false) {
 				unset($data["keywords"][$index]);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 
-	return($data);
+	return $data;
 }
 
 function add_page_keywords($url, $no_photos = false, $photo = "", $keywords = false, $keyword_blacklist = "") {
@@ -252,16 +261,17 @@ function add_page_keywords($url, $no_photos = false, $photo = "", $keywords = fa
 	if (isset($data["keywords"]) AND count($data["keywords"])) {
 		foreach ($data["keywords"] AS $keyword) {
 			$hashtag = str_replace(array(" ", "+", "/", ".", "#", "'"),
-						array("","", "", "", "", ""), $keyword);
+				array("", "", "", "", "", ""), $keyword);
 
-			if ($tags != "")
-				$tags .= ",";
+			if ($tags != "") {
+				$tags .= ", ";
+			}
 
-			$tags .= "#[url=".App::get_baseurl()."/search?tag=".rawurlencode($hashtag)."]".$hashtag."[/url]";
+			$tags .= "#[url=" . App::get_baseurl() . "/search?tag=" . rawurlencode($hashtag) . "]" . $hashtag . "[/url]";
 		}
 	}
 
-	return($tags);
+	return $tags;
 }
 
 function add_page_info($url, $no_photos = false, $photo = "", $keywords = false, $keyword_blacklist = "") {
@@ -269,52 +279,58 @@ function add_page_info($url, $no_photos = false, $photo = "", $keywords = false,
 
 	$text = add_page_info_data($data);
 
-	return($text);
+	return $text;
 }
 
 function add_page_info_to_body($body, $texturl = false, $no_photos = false) {
 
-	logger('add_page_info_to_body: fetch page info for body '.$body, LOGGER_DEBUG);
+	logger('add_page_info_to_body: fetch page info for body ' . $body, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
 	$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
 
 	// Fix for Mastodon where the mentions are in a different format
 	$body = preg_replace("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\]([#!@])(.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",
-				'$2[url=$1]$3[/url]', $body);
+		'$2[url=$1]$3[/url]', $body);
 
 	// Adding these spaces is a quick hack due to my problems with regular expressions :)
-	preg_match("/[^!#@]\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", " ".$body, $matches);
+	preg_match("/[^!#@]\[url\]([$URLSearchString]*)\[\/url\]/ism", " " . $body, $matches);
 
-	if (!$matches)
-		preg_match("/[^!#@]\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", " ".$body, $matches);
+	if (!$matches) {
+		preg_match("/[^!#@]\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", " " . $body, $matches);
+	}
 
 	// Convert urls without bbcode elements
 	if (!$matches AND $texturl) {
 		preg_match("/([^\]\='".'"'."]|^)(https?\:\/\/[a-zA-Z0-9\:\/\-\?\&\;\.\=\_\~\#\%\$\!\+\,]+)/ism", " ".$body, $matches);
 
 		// Yeah, a hack. I really hate regular expressions :)
-		if ($matches)
+		if ($matches) {
 			$matches[1] = $matches[2];
+		}
 	}
 
-	if ($matches)
+	if ($matches) {
 		$footer = add_page_info($matches[1], $no_photos);
+	}
 
 	// Remove the link from the body if the link is attached at the end of the post
 	if (isset($footer) AND (trim($footer) != "") AND (strpos($footer, $matches[1]))) {
 		$removedlink = trim(str_replace($matches[1], "", $body));
-		if (($removedlink == "") OR strstr($body, $removedlink))
+		if (($removedlink == "") OR strstr($body, $removedlink)) {
 			$body = $removedlink;
+		}
 
 		$url = str_replace(array('/', '.'), array('\/', '\.'), $matches[1]);
-		$removedlink = preg_replace("/\[url\=".$url."\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '', $body);
-		if (($removedlink == "") OR strstr($body, $removedlink))
+		$removedlink = preg_replace("/\[url\=" . $url . "\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism", '', $body);
+		if (($removedlink == "") OR strstr($body, $removedlink)) {
 			$body = $removedlink;
+		}
 	}
 
 	// Add the page information to the bottom
-	if (isset($footer) AND (trim($footer) != ""))
+	if (isset($footer) AND (trim($footer) != "")) {
 		$body .= $footer;
+	}
 
 	return $body;
 }
@@ -328,12 +344,13 @@ function add_page_info_to_body($body, $texturl = false, $no_photos = false) {
  */
 function item_add_language_opt(&$arr) {
 
-	if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '<')) return; // LanguageDetect.php not available ?
+	if (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.3.0', '<')) {
+		 // LanguageDetect.php not available ?
+		return;
+	}
 
-	if ( x($arr, 'postopts') )
-	{
-		if ( strstr($arr['postopts'], 'lang=') )
-		{
+	if (x($arr, 'postopts') ) {
+		if (strstr($arr['postopts'], 'lang=') ) {
 			// do not override
 			/// @TODO Add parameter to request overriding
 			return;
@@ -344,8 +361,9 @@ function item_add_language_opt(&$arr) {
 	}
 
 	require_once('library/langdet/Text/LanguageDetect.php');
-	$naked_body = preg_replace('/\[(.+?)\]/','',$arr['body']);
-	$l = new Text_LanguageDetect;
+
+	$naked_body = preg_replace('/\[(.+?)\]/','', $arr['body']);
+	$l = new Text_LanguageDetect();
 	//$lng = $l->detectConfidence($naked_body);
 	//$arr['postopts'] = (($lng['language']) ? 'lang=' . $lng['language'] . ';' . $lng['confidence'] : '');
 	$lng = $l->detect($naked_body, 3);
@@ -355,7 +373,7 @@ function item_add_language_opt(&$arr) {
 		$postopts .= 'lang=';
 		$sep = "";
 		foreach ($lng as $language => $score) {
-			$postopts .= $sep . $language.";".$score;
+			$postopts .= $sep . $language . ";" . $score;
 			$sep = ':';
 		}
 		$arr['postopts'] = $postopts;
@@ -392,7 +410,9 @@ function uri_to_guid($uri, $host = "") {
 	return $guid_prefix.$host_hash;
 }
 
-function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = false) {
+/// @TODO Maybe $arr must be called-by-reference? This function modifies it
+/// @TODO add type-hint array
+function item_store($arr, $force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = false) {
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
@@ -416,11 +436,13 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 		}
 	}
 
-	// If a Diaspora signature structure was passed in, pull it out of the
-	// item array and set it aside for later storage.
+	/*
+	 * If a Diaspora signature structure was passed in, pull it out of the
+	 * item array and set it aside for later storage.
+	 */
 
 	$dsprsig = null;
-	if (x($arr,'dsprsig')) {
+	if (x($arr, 'dsprsig')) {
 		$encoded_signature = $arr['dsprsig'];
 		$dsprsig = json_decode(base64_decode($arr['dsprsig']));
 		unset($arr['dsprsig']);
@@ -428,27 +450,28 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 
 	// Converting the plink
 	if ($arr['network'] == NETWORK_OSTATUS) {
-		if (isset($arr['plink']))
+		if (isset($arr['plink'])) {
 			$arr['plink'] = ostatus::convert_href($arr['plink']);
-		elseif (isset($arr['uri']))
+		} elseif (isset($arr['uri'])) {
 			$arr['plink'] = ostatus::convert_href($arr['uri']);
+		}
 	}
 
-	if (x($arr, 'gravity'))
+	if (x($arr, 'gravity')) {
 		$arr['gravity'] = intval($arr['gravity']);
-	elseif ($arr['parent-uri'] === $arr['uri'])
+	} elseif ($arr['parent-uri'] === $arr['uri']) {
 		$arr['gravity'] = 0;
-	elseif (activity_match($arr['verb'],ACTIVITY_POST))
+	} elseif (activity_match($arr['verb'],ACTIVITY_POST)) {
 		$arr['gravity'] = 6;
-	else
+	} else {
 		$arr['gravity'] = 6;   // extensible catchall
+	}
 
-	if (! x($arr,'type'))
+	if (! x($arr, 'type')) {
 		$arr['type']      = 'remote';
+	}
 
-
-
-	/* check for create  date and expire time */
+	// check for create  date and expire time
 	$uid = intval($arr['uid']);
 	$r = q("SELECT expire FROM user WHERE uid = %d", intval($uid));
 	if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
@@ -463,8 +486,11 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 		}
 	}
 
-	// Do we already have this item?
-	// We have to check several networks since Friendica posts could be repeated via OStatus (maybe Diasporsa as well)
+	/*
+	 * Do we already have this item?
+	 * We have to check several networks since Friendica posts could be repeated
+	 * via OStatus (maybe Diasporsa as well)
+	 */
 	if (in_array(trim($arr['network']), array(NETWORK_DIASPORA, NETWORK_DFRN, NETWORK_OSTATUS, ""))) {
 		$r = q("SELECT `id`, `network` FROM `item` WHERE `uri` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d AND `network` IN ('%s', '%s', '%s')  LIMIT 1",
 				dbesc(trim($arr['uri'])),
@@ -473,14 +499,17 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 				dbesc(NETWORK_DFRN),
 				dbesc(NETWORK_OSTATUS)
 			);
-		if ($r) {
+		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			// We only log the entries with a different user id than 0. Otherwise we would have too many false positives
-			if ($uid != 0)
+			if ($uid != 0) {
 				logger("Item with uri ".$arr['uri']." already existed for user ".$uid." with id ".$r[0]["id"]." target network ".$r[0]["network"]." - new network: ".$arr['network']);
-			return($r[0]["id"]);
+			}
+
+			return $r[0]["id"];
 		}
 	}
 
+	/// @TODO old-lost code?
 	// Shouldn't happen but we want to make absolutely sure it doesn't leak from a plugin.
 	// Deactivated, since the bbcode parser can handle with it - and it destroys posts with some smileys that contain "<"
 	//if ((strpos($arr['body'],'<') !== false) || (strpos($arr['body'],'>') !== false))
@@ -488,76 +517,79 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 
 	item_add_language_opt($arr);
 
-	if ($notify)
+	if ($notify) {
 		$guid_prefix = "";
-	elseif ((trim($arr['guid']) == "") AND (trim($arr['plink']) != ""))
+	} elseif ((trim($arr['guid']) == "") AND (trim($arr['plink']) != "")) {
 		$arr['guid'] = uri_to_guid($arr['plink']);
-	elseif ((trim($arr['guid']) == "") AND (trim($arr['uri']) != ""))
+	} elseif ((trim($arr['guid']) == "") AND (trim($arr['uri']) != "")) {
 		$arr['guid'] = uri_to_guid($arr['uri']);
-	else {
+	} else {
 		$parsed = parse_url($arr["author-link"]);
 		$guid_prefix = hash("crc32", $parsed["host"]);
 	}
 
-	$arr['wall']          = ((x($arr,'wall'))          ? intval($arr['wall'])                : 0);
-	$arr['guid']          = ((x($arr,'guid'))          ? notags(trim($arr['guid']))          : get_guid(32, $guid_prefix));
-	$arr['uri']           = ((x($arr,'uri'))           ? notags(trim($arr['uri']))           : item_new_uri($a->get_hostname(), $uid, $arr['guid']));
-	$arr['extid']         = ((x($arr,'extid'))         ? notags(trim($arr['extid']))         : '');
-	$arr['author-name']   = ((x($arr,'author-name'))   ? trim($arr['author-name'])   : '');
-	$arr['author-link']   = ((x($arr,'author-link'))   ? notags(trim($arr['author-link']))   : '');
-	$arr['author-avatar'] = ((x($arr,'author-avatar')) ? notags(trim($arr['author-avatar'])) : '');
-	$arr['owner-name']    = ((x($arr,'owner-name'))    ? trim($arr['owner-name'])    : '');
-	$arr['owner-link']    = ((x($arr,'owner-link'))    ? notags(trim($arr['owner-link']))    : '');
-	$arr['owner-avatar']  = ((x($arr,'owner-avatar'))  ? notags(trim($arr['owner-avatar']))  : '');
-	$arr['created']       = ((x($arr,'created') !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$arr['created']) : datetime_convert());
-	$arr['edited']        = ((x($arr,'edited')  !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$arr['edited'])  : datetime_convert());
-	$arr['commented']     = ((x($arr,'commented')  !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$arr['commented'])  : datetime_convert());
-	$arr['received']      = ((x($arr,'received')  !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$arr['received'])  : datetime_convert());
-	$arr['changed']       = ((x($arr,'changed')  !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC',$arr['changed'])  : datetime_convert());
-	$arr['title']         = ((x($arr,'title'))         ? trim($arr['title'])         : '');
-	$arr['location']      = ((x($arr,'location'))      ? trim($arr['location'])      : '');
-	$arr['coord']         = ((x($arr,'coord'))         ? notags(trim($arr['coord']))         : '');
-	$arr['last-child']    = ((x($arr,'last-child'))    ? intval($arr['last-child'])          : 0 );
-	$arr['visible']       = ((x($arr,'visible') !== false) ? intval($arr['visible'])         : 1 );
+	$arr['wall']          = ((x($arr, 'wall'))          ? intval($arr['wall'])                : 0);
+	$arr['guid']          = ((x($arr, 'guid'))          ? notags(trim($arr['guid']))          : get_guid(32, $guid_prefix));
+	$arr['uri']           = ((x($arr, 'uri'))           ? notags(trim($arr['uri']))           : item_new_uri($a->get_hostname(), $uid, $arr['guid']));
+	$arr['extid']         = ((x($arr, 'extid'))         ? notags(trim($arr['extid']))         : '');
+	$arr['author-name']   = ((x($arr, 'author-name'))   ? trim($arr['author-name'])   : '');
+	$arr['author-link']   = ((x($arr, 'author-link'))   ? notags(trim($arr['author-link']))   : '');
+	$arr['author-avatar'] = ((x($arr, 'author-avatar')) ? notags(trim($arr['author-avatar'])) : '');
+	$arr['owner-name']    = ((x($arr, 'owner-name'))    ? trim($arr['owner-name'])    : '');
+	$arr['owner-link']    = ((x($arr, 'owner-link'))    ? notags(trim($arr['owner-link']))    : '');
+	$arr['owner-avatar']  = ((x($arr, 'owner-avatar'))  ? notags(trim($arr['owner-avatar']))  : '');
+	$arr['created']       = ((x($arr, 'created') !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $arr['created']) : datetime_convert());
+	$arr['edited']        = ((x($arr, 'edited')  !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $arr['edited'])  : datetime_convert());
+	$arr['commented']     = ((x($arr, 'commented')  !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $arr['commented'])  : datetime_convert());
+	$arr['received']      = ((x($arr, 'received')  !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $arr['received'])  : datetime_convert());
+	$arr['changed']       = ((x($arr, 'changed')  !== false) ? datetime_convert('UTC','UTC', $arr['changed'])  : datetime_convert());
+	$arr['title']         = ((x($arr, 'title'))         ? trim($arr['title'])         : '');
+	$arr['location']      = ((x($arr, 'location'))      ? trim($arr['location'])      : '');
+	$arr['coord']         = ((x($arr, 'coord'))         ? notags(trim($arr['coord']))         : '');
+	$arr['last-child']    = ((x($arr, 'last-child'))    ? intval($arr['last-child'])          : 0 );
+	$arr['visible']       = ((x($arr, 'visible') !== false) ? intval($arr['visible'])         : 1 );
 	$arr['deleted']       = 0;
-	$arr['parent-uri']    = ((x($arr,'parent-uri'))    ? notags(trim($arr['parent-uri']))    : $arr['uri']);
-	$arr['verb']          = ((x($arr,'verb'))          ? notags(trim($arr['verb']))          : '');
-	$arr['object-type']   = ((x($arr,'object-type'))   ? notags(trim($arr['object-type']))   : '');
-	$arr['object']        = ((x($arr,'object'))        ? trim($arr['object'])                : '');
-	$arr['target-type']   = ((x($arr,'target-type'))   ? notags(trim($arr['target-type']))   : '');
-	$arr['target']        = ((x($arr,'target'))        ? trim($arr['target'])                : '');
-	$arr['plink']         = ((x($arr,'plink'))         ? notags(trim($arr['plink']))         : '');
-	$arr['allow_cid']     = ((x($arr,'allow_cid'))     ? trim($arr['allow_cid'])             : '');
-	$arr['allow_gid']     = ((x($arr,'allow_gid'))     ? trim($arr['allow_gid'])             : '');
-	$arr['deny_cid']      = ((x($arr,'deny_cid'))      ? trim($arr['deny_cid'])              : '');
-	$arr['deny_gid']      = ((x($arr,'deny_gid'))      ? trim($arr['deny_gid'])              : '');
-	$arr['private']       = ((x($arr,'private'))       ? intval($arr['private'])             : 0 );
-	$arr['bookmark']      = ((x($arr,'bookmark'))      ? intval($arr['bookmark'])            : 0 );
-	$arr['body']          = ((x($arr,'body'))          ? trim($arr['body'])                  : '');
-	$arr['tag']           = ((x($arr,'tag'))           ? notags(trim($arr['tag']))           : '');
-	$arr['attach']        = ((x($arr,'attach'))        ? notags(trim($arr['attach']))        : '');
-	$arr['app']           = ((x($arr,'app'))           ? notags(trim($arr['app']))           : '');
-	$arr['origin']        = ((x($arr,'origin'))        ? intval($arr['origin'])              : 0 );
-	$arr['network']       = ((x($arr,'network'))       ? trim($arr['network'])               : '');
-	$arr['postopts']      = ((x($arr,'postopts'))      ? trim($arr['postopts'])              : '');
-	$arr['resource-id']   = ((x($arr,'resource-id'))   ? trim($arr['resource-id'])           : '');
-	$arr['event-id']      = ((x($arr,'event-id'))      ? intval($arr['event-id'])            : 0 );
-	$arr['inform']        = ((x($arr,'inform'))        ? trim($arr['inform'])                : '');
-	$arr['file']          = ((x($arr,'file'))          ? trim($arr['file'])                  : '');
+	$arr['parent-uri']    = ((x($arr, 'parent-uri'))    ? notags(trim($arr['parent-uri']))    : $arr['uri']);
+	$arr['verb']          = ((x($arr, 'verb'))          ? notags(trim($arr['verb']))          : '');
+	$arr['object-type']   = ((x($arr, 'object-type'))   ? notags(trim($arr['object-type']))   : '');
+	$arr['object']        = ((x($arr, 'object'))        ? trim($arr['object'])                : '');
+	$arr['target-type']   = ((x($arr, 'target-type'))   ? notags(trim($arr['target-type']))   : '');
+	$arr['target']        = ((x($arr, 'target'))        ? trim($arr['target'])                : '');
+	$arr['plink']         = ((x($arr, 'plink'))         ? notags(trim($arr['plink']))         : '');
+	$arr['allow_cid']     = ((x($arr, 'allow_cid'))     ? trim($arr['allow_cid'])             : '');
+	$arr['allow_gid']     = ((x($arr, 'allow_gid'))     ? trim($arr['allow_gid'])             : '');
+	$arr['deny_cid']      = ((x($arr, 'deny_cid'))      ? trim($arr['deny_cid'])              : '');
+	$arr['deny_gid']      = ((x($arr, 'deny_gid'))      ? trim($arr['deny_gid'])              : '');
+	$arr['private']       = ((x($arr, 'private'))       ? intval($arr['private'])             : 0 );
+	$arr['bookmark']      = ((x($arr, 'bookmark'))      ? intval($arr['bookmark'])            : 0 );
+	$arr['body']          = ((x($arr, 'body'))          ? trim($arr['body'])                  : '');
+	$arr['tag']           = ((x($arr, 'tag'))           ? notags(trim($arr['tag']))           : '');
+	$arr['attach']        = ((x($arr, 'attach'))        ? notags(trim($arr['attach']))        : '');
+	$arr['app']           = ((x($arr, 'app'))           ? notags(trim($arr['app']))           : '');
+	$arr['origin']        = ((x($arr, 'origin'))        ? intval($arr['origin'])              : 0 );
+	$arr['network']       = ((x($arr, 'network'))       ? trim($arr['network'])               : '');
+	$arr['postopts']      = ((x($arr, 'postopts'))      ? trim($arr['postopts'])              : '');
+	$arr['resource-id']   = ((x($arr, 'resource-id'))   ? trim($arr['resource-id'])           : '');
+	$arr['event-id']      = ((x($arr, 'event-id'))      ? intval($arr['event-id'])            : 0 );
+	$arr['inform']        = ((x($arr, 'inform'))        ? trim($arr['inform'])                : '');
+	$arr['file']          = ((x($arr, 'file'))          ? trim($arr['file'])                  : '');
 
 	// Items cannot be stored before they happen ...
-	if ($arr['created'] > datetime_convert())
+	if ($arr['created'] > datetime_convert()) {
 		$arr['created'] = datetime_convert();
+	}
 
 	// We haven't invented time travel by now.
-	if ($arr['edited'] > datetime_convert())
+	if ($arr['edited'] > datetime_convert()) {
 		$arr['edited'] = datetime_convert();
+	}
 
-	if (($arr['author-link'] == "") AND ($arr['owner-link'] == ""))
-		logger("Both author-link and owner-link are empty. Called by: ".App::callstack(), LOGGER_DEBUG);
+	if (($arr['author-link'] == "") AND ($arr['owner-link'] == "")) {
+		logger("Both author-link and owner-link are empty. Called by: " . App::callstack(), LOGGER_DEBUG);
+	}
 
 	if ($arr['plink'] == "") {
-		$arr['plink'] = App::get_baseurl().'/display/'.urlencode($arr['guid']);
+		$arr['plink'] = App::get_baseurl() . '/display/' . urlencode($arr['guid']);
 	}
 
 	if ($arr['network'] == "") {
@@ -573,59 +605,74 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 				dbesc(normalise_link($arr['author-link']))
 			);
 
-		if (!dbm::is_result($r))
+		if (!dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			$r = q("SELECT `network` FROM `contact` WHERE `id` = %d AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 				intval($arr['contact-id']),
 				intval($arr['uid'])
 			);
+		}
 
-		if (dbm::is_result($r))
+		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			$arr['network'] = $r[0]["network"];
+		}
 
 		// Fallback to friendica (why is it empty in some cases?)
-		if ($arr['network'] == "")
+		if ($arr['network'] == "") {
 			$arr['network'] = NETWORK_DFRN;
+		}
 
-		logger("item_store: Set network to ".$arr["network"]." for ".$arr["uri"], LOGGER_DEBUG);
+		logger("item_store: Set network to " . $arr["network"] . " for " . $arr["uri"], LOGGER_DEBUG);
 	}
 
 	// The contact-id should be set before "item_store" was called - but there seems to be some issues
 	if ($arr["contact-id"] == 0) {
-		// First we are looking for a suitable contact that matches with the author of the post
-		// This is done only for comments (See below explanation at "gcontact-id")
-		if ($arr['parent-uri'] != $arr['uri'])
+		/*
+		 * First we are looking for a suitable contact that matches with the author of the post
+		 * This is done only for comments (See below explanation at "gcontact-id")
+		 */
+		if ($arr['parent-uri'] != $arr['uri']) {
 			$arr["contact-id"] = get_contact($arr['author-link'], $uid);
+		}
 
 		// If not present then maybe the owner was found
-		if ($arr["contact-id"] == 0)
+		if ($arr["contact-id"] == 0) {
 			$arr["contact-id"] = get_contact($arr['owner-link'], $uid);
+		}
 
 		// Still missing? Then use the "self" contact of the current user
 		if ($arr["contact-id"] == 0) {
 			$r = q("SELECT `id` FROM `contact` WHERE `self` AND `uid` = %d", intval($uid));
-			if ($r)
+
+			if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 				$arr["contact-id"] = $r[0]["id"];
+			}
 		}
+
 		logger("Contact-id was missing for post ".$arr["guid"]." from user id ".$uid." - now set to ".$arr["contact-id"], LOGGER_DEBUG);
 	}
 
 	if ($arr["gcontact-id"] == 0) {
-		// The gcontact should mostly behave like the contact. But is is supposed to be global for the system.
-		// This means that wall posts, repeated posts, etc. should have the gcontact id of the owner.
-		// On comments the author is the better choice.
-		if ($arr['parent-uri'] === $arr['uri'])
+		/*
+		 * The gcontact should mostly behave like the contact. But is is supposed to be global for the system.
+		 * This means that wall posts, repeated posts, etc. should have the gcontact id of the owner.
+		 * On comments the author is the better choice.
+		 */
+		if ($arr['parent-uri'] === $arr['uri']) {
 			$arr["gcontact-id"] = get_gcontact_id(array("url" => $arr['owner-link'], "network" => $arr['network'],
 								 "photo" => $arr['owner-avatar'], "name" => $arr['owner-name']));
-		else
+		} else {
 			$arr["gcontact-id"] = get_gcontact_id(array("url" => $arr['author-link'], "network" => $arr['network'],
 								 "photo" => $arr['author-avatar'], "name" => $arr['author-name']));
+		}
 	}
 
-	if ($arr["author-id"] == 0)
+	if ($arr["author-id"] == 0) {
 		$arr["author-id"] = get_contact($arr["author-link"], 0);
+	}
 
-	if ($arr["owner-id"] == 0)
+	if ($arr["owner-id"] == 0) {
 		$arr["owner-id"] = get_contact($arr["owner-link"], 0);
+	}
 
 	if ($arr['guid'] != "") {
 		// Checking if there is already an item with the same guid
@@ -675,8 +722,10 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 					dbesc($r[0]['parent-uri']),
 					intval($arr['uid'])
 				);
-				if ($z && count($z))
+
+				if (dbm::is_result($z)) {
 					$r = $z;
+				}
 			}
 
 			$parent_id      = $r[0]['id'];
@@ -688,20 +737,23 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 			$arr['wall']    = $r[0]['wall'];
 			$notify_type    = 'comment-new';
 
-			// if the parent is private, force privacy for the entire conversation
-			// This differs from the above settings as it subtly allows comments from
-			// email correspondents to be private even if the overall thread is not.
-
-			if ($r[0]['private'])
+			/*
+			 * If the parent is private, force privacy for the entire conversation
+			 * This differs from the above settings as it subtly allows comments from
+			 * email correspondents to be private even if the overall thread is not.
+			 */
+			if ($r[0]['private']) {
 				$arr['private'] = $r[0]['private'];
+			}
 
-			// Edge case. We host a public forum that was originally posted to privately.
-			// The original author commented, but as this is a comment, the permissions
-			// weren't fixed up so it will still show the comment as private unless we fix it here.
-
-			if ((intval($r[0]['forum_mode']) == 1) && (! $r[0]['private']))
+			/*
+			 * Edge case. We host a public forum that was originally posted to privately.
+			 * The original author commented, but as this is a comment, the permissions
+			 * weren't fixed up so it will still show the comment as private unless we fix it here.
+			 */
+			if ((intval($r[0]['forum_mode']) == 1) && (! $r[0]['private'])) {
 				$arr['private'] = 0;
-
+			}
 
 			// If its a post from myself then tag the thread as "mention"
 			logger("item_store: Checking if parent ".$parent_id." has to be tagged as mention for user ".$arr['uid'], LOGGER_DEBUG);
@@ -716,10 +768,10 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 				}
 			}
 		} else {
-
-			// Allow one to see reply tweets from status.net even when
-			// we don't have or can't see the original post.
-
+			/*
+			 * Allow one to see reply tweets from status.net even when
+			 * we don't have or can't see the original post.
+			 */
 			if ($force_parent) {
 				logger('item_store: $force_parent=true, reply converted to top-level post.');
 				$parent_id = 0;
@@ -779,14 +831,15 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 	} else {
 		$isglobal = q("SELECT `global` FROM `item` WHERE `uid` = 0 AND `uri` = '%s'", dbesc($arr["uri"]));
 
-		$arr["global"] = (count($isglobal) > 0);
+		$arr["global"] = (dbm::is_result($isglobal) && count($isglobal) > 0);
 	}
 
 	// ACL settings
-	if (strlen($allow_cid) || strlen($allow_gid) || strlen($deny_cid) || strlen($deny_gid))
+	if (strlen($allow_cid) || strlen($allow_gid) || strlen($deny_cid) || strlen($deny_gid)) {
 		$private = 1;
-	else
+	} else {
 		$private = $arr['private'];
+	}
 
 	$arr["allow_cid"] = $allow_cid;
 	$arr["allow_gid"] = $allow_gid;
@@ -798,19 +851,22 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 	// Fill the cache field
 	put_item_in_cache($arr);
 
-	if ($notify)
-		call_hooks('post_local',$arr);
-	else
-		call_hooks('post_remote',$arr);
+	if ($notify) {
+		call_hooks('post_local', $arr);
+	} else {
+		call_hooks('post_remote', $arr);
+	}
 
-	if (x($arr,'cancel')) {
+	if (x($arr, 'cancel')) {
 		logger('item_store: post cancelled by plugin.');
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	// Check for already added items.
-	// There is a timing issue here that sometimes creates double postings.
-	// An unique index would help - but the limitations of MySQL (maximum size of index values) prevent this.
+	/*
+	 * Check for already added items.
+	 * There is a timing issue here that sometimes creates double postings.
+	 * An unique index would help - but the limitations of MySQL (maximum size of index values) prevent this.
+	 */
 	if ($arr["uid"] == 0) {
 		$r = qu("SELECT `id` FROM `item` WHERE `uri` = '%s' AND `uid` = 0 LIMIT 1", dbesc(trim($arr['uri'])));
 		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
@@ -895,7 +951,7 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 
 	if ($r[0]["entries"] > 1) {
 		// There are duplicates. We delete our just created entry.
-		logger('Duplicated post occurred. uri = '.$arr['uri'].' uid = '.$arr['uid']);
+		logger('Duplicated post occurred. uri = ' . $arr['uri'] . ' uid = ' . $arr['uid']);
 
 		// Yes, we could do a rollback here - but we are having many users with MyISAM.
 		q("DELETE FROM `item` WHERE `id` = %d", intval($current_post));
@@ -911,8 +967,9 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 	logger('item_store: created item '.$current_post);
 	item_set_last_item($arr);
 
-	if (!$parent_id || ($arr['parent-uri'] === $arr['uri']))
+	if (!$parent_id || ($arr['parent-uri'] === $arr['uri'])) {
 		$parent_id = $current_post;
+	}
 
 	// Set parent id
 	$r = q("UPDATE `item` SET `parent` = %d WHERE `id` = %d",
@@ -925,28 +982,31 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 
 	// update the commented timestamp on the parent
 	// Only update "commented" if it is really a comment
-	if (($arr['verb'] == ACTIVITY_POST) OR !get_config("system", "like_no_comment"))
+	if (($arr['verb'] == ACTIVITY_POST) OR !get_config("system", "like_no_comment")) {
 		q("UPDATE `item` SET `commented` = '%s', `changed` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
 			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
 			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
 			intval($parent_id)
 		);
-	else
+	} else {
 		q("UPDATE `item` SET `changed` = '%s' WHERE `id` = %d",
 			dbesc(datetime_convert()),
 			intval($parent_id)
 		);
+	}
 
 	if ($dsprsig) {
 
-		// Friendica servers lower than 3.4.3-2 had double encoded the signature ...
-		// We can check for this condition when we decode and encode the stuff again.
+		/*
+		 * Friendica servers lower than 3.4.3-2 had double encoded the signature ...
+		 * We can check for this condition when we decode and encode the stuff again.
+		 */
 		if (base64_encode(base64_decode(base64_decode($dsprsig->signature))) == base64_decode($dsprsig->signature)) {
 			$dsprsig->signature = base64_decode($dsprsig->signature);
 			logger("Repaired double encoded signature from handle ".$dsprsig->signer, LOGGER_DEBUG);
 		}
 
-		q("insert into sign (`iid`,`signed_text`,`signature`,`signer`) values (%d,'%s','%s','%s') ",
+		q("INSERT INTO `sign` (`iid`,`signed_text`,`signature`,`signer`) values (%d,'%s','%s','%s') ",
 			intval($current_post),
 			dbesc($dsprsig->signed_text),
 			dbesc($dsprsig->signature),
@@ -954,10 +1014,12 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 		);
 	}
 
-	$deleted = tag_deliver($arr['uid'],$current_post);
+	$deleted = tag_deliver($arr['uid'], $current_post);
 
-	// current post can be deleted if is for a community page and no mention are
-	// in it.
+	/*
+	 * current post can be deleted if is for a community page and no mention are
+	 * in it.
+	 */
 	if (!$deleted AND !$dontcache) {
 
 		$r = q('SELECT * FROM `item` WHERE `id` = %d', intval($current_post));
@@ -980,13 +1042,17 @@ function item_store($arr,$force_parent = false, $notify = false, $dontcache = fa
 
 	q("COMMIT");
 
-	// Due to deadlock issues with the "term" table we are doing these steps after the commit.
-	// This is not perfect - but a workable solution until we found the reason for the problem.
+	/*
+	 * Due to deadlock issues with the "term" table we are doing these steps after the commit.
+	 * This is not perfect - but a workable solution until we found the reason for the problem.
+	 */
 	create_tags_from_item($current_post);
 	create_files_from_item($current_post);
 
-	// If this is now the last-child, force all _other_ children of this parent to *not* be last-child
-	// It is done after the transaction to avoid dead locks.
+	/*
+	 * If this is now the last-child, force all _other_ children of this parent to *not* be last-child
+	 * It is done after the transaction to avoid dead locks.
+	 */
 	if ($arr['last-child']) {
 		$r = q("UPDATE `item` SET `last-child` = 0 WHERE `parent-uri` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d AND `id` != %d",
 			dbesc($arr['uri']),
@@ -1027,7 +1093,7 @@ function item_set_last_item($arr) {
 	if (!$update AND ($arr["network"] == NETWORK_DFRN) AND ($arr["parent-uri"] === $arr["uri"])) {
 		$isforum = q("SELECT `forum` FROM `contact` WHERE `id` = %d AND `forum`",
 				intval($arr['contact-id']));
-		if ($isforum) {
+		if (dbm::is_result($isforum)) {
 			$update = true;
 		}
 	}
@@ -1062,8 +1128,9 @@ function item_body_set_hashtags(&$item) {
 	$tags = get_tags($item["body"]);
 
 	// No hashtags?
-	if (!count($tags))
-		return(false);
+	if (!count($tags)) {
+		return false;
+	}
 
 	// This sorting is important when there are hashtags that are part of other hashtags
 	// Otherwise there could be problems with hashtags like #test and #test2
@@ -1073,6 +1140,7 @@ function item_body_set_hashtags(&$item) {
 
 	$URLSearchString = "^\[\]";
 
+	/// @TODO old-lost code?
 	// All hashtags should point to the home server
 	//$item["body"] = preg_replace("/#\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",
 	//		"#[url=".App::get_baseurl()."/search?tag=$2]$2[/url]", $item["body"]);
@@ -1082,41 +1150,39 @@ function item_body_set_hashtags(&$item) {
 
 	// mask hashtags inside of url, bookmarks and attachments to avoid urls in urls
 	$item["body"] = preg_replace_callback("/\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",
-		function ($match){
-			return("[url=".str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[1])."]".str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[2])."[/url]");
-		},$item["body"]);
+		function ($match) {
+			return ("[url=" . str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[1]) . "]" . str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[2]) . "[/url]");
+		}, $item["body"]);
 
 	$item["body"] = preg_replace_callback("/\[bookmark\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/bookmark\]/ism",
-		function ($match){
-			return("[bookmark=".str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[1])."]".str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[2])."[/bookmark]");
-		},$item["body"]);
+		function ($match) {
+			return ("[bookmark=" . str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[1]) . "]" . str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[2]) . "[/bookmark]");
+		}, $item["body"]);
 
 	$item["body"] = preg_replace_callback("/\[attachment (.*)\](.*?)\[\/attachment\]/ism",
-		function ($match){
-			return("[attachment ".str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[1])."]".$match[2]."[/attachment]");
-		},$item["body"]);
+		function ($match) {
+			return ("[attachment " . str_replace("#", "&num;", $match[1]) . "]" . $match[2] . "[/attachment]");
+		}, $item["body"]);
 
 	// Repair recursive urls
 	$item["body"] = preg_replace("/&num;\[url\=([$URLSearchString]*)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism",
 			"&num;$2", $item["body"]);
 
-
-	foreach($tags as $tag) {
-		if (strpos($tag,'#') !== 0)
-			continue;
-
-		if (strpos($tag,'[url='))
+	foreach ($tags as $tag) {
+		if ((strpos($tag, '#') !== 0) || (strpos($tag, '[url='))) {
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		$basetag = str_replace('_',' ',substr($tag,1));
 
-		$newtag = '#[url='.App::get_baseurl().'/search?tag='.rawurlencode($basetag).']'.$basetag.'[/url]';
+		$newtag = '#[url=' . App::get_baseurl() . '/search?tag=' . rawurlencode($basetag) . ']' . $basetag . '[/url]';
 
 		$item["body"] = str_replace($tag, $newtag, $item["body"]);
 
-		if (!stristr($item["tag"],"/search?tag=".$basetag."]".$basetag."[/url]")) {
-			if (strlen($item["tag"]))
+		if (!stristr($item["tag"], "/search?tag=" . $basetag . "]" . $basetag . "[/url]")) {
+			if (strlen($item["tag"])) {
 				$item["tag"] = ','.$item["tag"];
+			}
 			$item["tag"] = $newtag.$item["tag"];
 		}
 	}
@@ -1127,10 +1193,12 @@ function item_body_set_hashtags(&$item) {
 
 function get_item_guid($id) {
 	$r = q("SELECT `guid` FROM `item` WHERE `id` = %d LIMIT 1", intval($id));
-	if (dbm::is_result($r))
-		return($r[0]["guid"]);
-	else
-		return("");
+	if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
+		return $r[0]["guid"];
+	} else {
+		/// @TODO This else-block can be elimited again
+		return "";
+	}
 }
 
 function get_item_id($guid, $uid = 0) {
@@ -1138,8 +1206,9 @@ function get_item_id($guid, $uid = 0) {
 	$nick = "";
 	$id = 0;
 
-	if ($uid == 0)
+	if ($uid == 0) {
 		$uid == local_user();
+	}
 
 	// Does the given user have this item?
 	if ($uid) {
@@ -1165,14 +1234,15 @@ function get_item_id($guid, $uid = 0) {
 			$nick = $r[0]["nickname"];
 		}
 	}
-	return(array("nick" => $nick, "id" => $id));
+	return array("nick" => $nick, "id" => $id);
 }
 
 // return - test
-function get_item_contact($item,$contacts) {
-	if (! count($contacts) || (! is_array($item)))
+function get_item_contact($item, $contacts) {
+	if (! count($contacts) || (! is_array($item))) {
 		return false;
-	foreach($contacts as $contact) {
+	}
+	foreach ($contacts as $contact) {
 		if ($contact['id'] == $item['contact-id']) {
 			return $contact;
 			break; // NOTREACHED
@@ -1187,15 +1257,13 @@ function get_item_contact($item,$contacts) {
  * @param int $item_id
  * @return bool true if item was deleted, else false
  */
-function tag_deliver($uid,$item_id) {
-
-	//
+function tag_deliver($uid, $item_id) {
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
 	$mention = false;
 
-	$u = q("select * from user where uid = %d limit 1",
+	$u = q("SELECT * FROM `user` WHERE `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 		intval($uid)
 	);
 
@@ -1219,24 +1287,25 @@ function tag_deliver($uid,$item_id) {
 
 	$link = normalise_link(App::get_baseurl() . '/profile/' . $u[0]['nickname']);
 
-	// Diaspora uses their own hardwired link URL in @-tags
-	// instead of the one we supply with webfinger
-
+	/*
+	 * Diaspora uses their own hardwired link URL in @-tags
+	 * instead of the one we supply with webfinger
+	 */
 	$dlink = normalise_link(App::get_baseurl() . '/u/' . $u[0]['nickname']);
 
-	$cnt = preg_match_all('/[\@\!]\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism',$item['body'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
+	$cnt = preg_match_all('/[\@\!]\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism', $item['body'], $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 	if ($cnt) {
-		foreach($matches as $mtch) {
-			if (link_compare($link,$mtch[1]) || link_compare($dlink,$mtch[1])) {
+		foreach ($matches as $mtch) {
+			if (link_compare($link, $mtch[1]) || link_compare($dlink, $mtch[1])) {
 				$mention = true;
 				logger('tag_deliver: mention found: ' . $mtch[2]);
 			}
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (! $mention){
-		if ( ($community_page || $prvgroup) &&
-			  (!$item['wall']) && (!$item['origin']) && ($item['id'] == $item['parent'])){
+	if (! $mention) {
+		if (($community_page || $prvgroup) &&
+			  (!$item['wall']) && (!$item['origin']) && ($item['id'] == $item['parent'])) {
 			// mmh.. no mention.. community page or private group... no wall.. no origin.. top-post (not a comment)
 			// delete it!
 			logger("tag_deliver: no-mention top-level post to communuty or private group. delete.");
@@ -1253,21 +1322,21 @@ function tag_deliver($uid,$item_id) {
 
 	call_hooks('tagged', $arr);
 
-	if ((! $community_page) && (! $prvgroup))
+	if ((! $community_page) && (! $prvgroup)) {
 		return;
+	}
 
-
-	// tgroup delivery - setup a second delivery chain
-	// prevent delivery looping - only proceed
-	// if the message originated elsewhere and is a top-level post
-
-	if (($item['wall']) || ($item['origin']) || ($item['id'] != $item['parent']))
+	/*
+	 * tgroup delivery - setup a second delivery chain
+	 * prevent delivery looping - only proceed
+	 * if the message originated elsewhere and is a top-level post
+	 */
+	if (($item['wall']) || ($item['origin']) || ($item['id'] != $item['parent'])) {
 		return;
+	}
 
 	// now change this copy of the post to a forum head message and deliver to all the tgroup members
-
-
-	$c = q("select name, url, thumb from contact where self = 1 and uid = %d limit 1",
+	$c = q("SELECT `name`, `url`, `thumb` FROM `contact` WHERE `self` = 1 AND `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 		intval($u[0]['uid'])
 	);
 	if (! dbm::is_result($c)) {
@@ -1301,14 +1370,15 @@ function tag_deliver($uid,$item_id) {
 
 
 
-function tgroup_check($uid,$item) {
+function tgroup_check($uid, $item) {
 
 	$mention = false;
 
 	// check that the message originated elsewhere and is a top-level post
 
-	if (($item['wall']) || ($item['origin']) || ($item['uri'] != $item['parent-uri']))
+	if (($item['wall']) || ($item['origin']) || ($item['uri'] != $item['parent-uri'])) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	/// @TODO Encapsulate this or find it encapsulated and replace all occurrances
 	$u = q("SELECT * FROM `user` WHERE `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
@@ -1321,18 +1391,18 @@ function tgroup_check($uid,$item) {
 	$community_page = (($u[0]['page-flags'] == PAGE_COMMUNITY) ? true : false);
 	$prvgroup = (($u[0]['page-flags'] == PAGE_PRVGROUP) ? true : false);
 
-
 	$link = normalise_link(App::get_baseurl() . '/profile/' . $u[0]['nickname']);
 
-	// Diaspora uses their own hardwired link URL in @-tags
-	// instead of the one we supply with webfinger
-
+	/*
+	 * Diaspora uses their own hardwired link URL in @-tags
+	 * instead of the one we supply with webfinger
+	 */
 	$dlink = normalise_link(App::get_baseurl() . '/u/' . $u[0]['nickname']);
 
-	$cnt = preg_match_all('/[\@\!]\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism',$item['body'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
+	$cnt = preg_match_all('/[\@\!]\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]/ism', $item['body'], $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 	if ($cnt) {
 		foreach ($matches as $mtch) {
-			if (link_compare($link,$mtch[1]) || link_compare($dlink,$mtch[1])) {
+			if (link_compare($link, $mtch[1]) || link_compare($dlink, $mtch[1])) {
 				$mention = true;
 				logger('tgroup_check: mention found: ' . $mtch[2]);
 			}
@@ -1343,23 +1413,25 @@ function tgroup_check($uid,$item) {
 		return false;
 	}
 
-	/// @TODO Combines both return statements into one
+	/// @TODO Combine both return statements into one
 	return (($community_page) || ($prvgroup));
 }
 
-/*
-  This function returns true if $update has an edited timestamp newer
-  than $existing, i.e. $update contains new data which should override
-  what's already there.  If there is no timestamp yet, the update is
-  assumed to be newer.  If the update has no timestamp, the existing
-  item is assumed to be up-to-date.  If the timestamps are equal it
-  assumes the update has been seen before and should be ignored.
-  */
-function edited_timestamp_is_newer($existing, $update) {
-	if (!x($existing,'edited') || !$existing['edited']) {
+/**
+ * This function returns true if $update has an edited timestamp newer
+ * than $existing, i.e. $update contains new data which should override
+ * what's already there.  If there is no timestamp yet, the update is
+ * assumed to be newer.  If the update has no timestamp, the existing
+ * item is assumed to be up-to-date.  If the timestamps are equal it
+ * assumes the update has been seen before and should be ignored.
+ *
+ * @todo fix type-hints (both array)
+ */
+function edited_timestamp_is_newer ($existing, $update) {
+	if (!x($existing, 'edited') || !$existing['edited']) {
 		return true;
 	}
-	if (!x($update,'edited') || !$update['edited']) {
+	if (!x($update, 'edited') || !$update['edited']) {
 		return false;
 	}
 
@@ -1393,16 +1465,17 @@ function edited_timestamp_is_newer($existing, $update) {
  * model where comments can have sub-threads. That would require some massive sorting
  * to get all the feed items into a mostly linear ordering, and might still require
  * recursion.
+ *
+ * @todo find proper type-hints
  */
-
-function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0, $pass = 0) {
+function consume_feed($xml, $importer, &$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0, $pass = 0) {
 	if ($contact['network'] === NETWORK_OSTATUS) {
 		if ($pass < 2) {
 			// Test - remove before flight
 			//$tempfile = tempnam(get_temppath(), "ostatus2");
 			//file_put_contents($tempfile, $xml);
 			logger("Consume OStatus messages ", LOGGER_DEBUG);
-			ostatus::import($xml,$importer,$contact, $hub);
+			ostatus::import($xml, $importer, $contact, $hub);
 		}
 		return;
 	}
@@ -1410,7 +1483,7 @@ function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0, $pass = 0)
 	if ($contact['network'] === NETWORK_FEED) {
 		if ($pass < 2) {
 			logger("Consume feeds", LOGGER_DEBUG);
-			feed_import($xml,$importer,$contact, $hub);
+			feed_import($xml, $importer, $contact, $hub);
 		}
 		return;
 	}
@@ -1418,7 +1491,7 @@ function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0, $pass = 0)
 	if ($contact['network'] === NETWORK_DFRN) {
 		logger("Consume DFRN messages", LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
-		$r = q("SELECT  `contact`.*, `contact`.`uid` AS `importer_uid`,
+		$r = q("SELECT `contact`.*, `contact`.`uid` AS `importer_uid`,
 					`contact`.`pubkey` AS `cpubkey`,
 					`contact`.`prvkey` AS `cprvkey`,
 					`contact`.`thumb` AS `thumb`,
@@ -1430,34 +1503,40 @@ function consume_feed($xml,$importer,&$contact, &$hub, $datedir = 0, $pass = 0)
 			WHERE `contact`.`id` = %d AND `user`.`uid` = %d",
 			dbesc($contact["id"]), dbesc($importer["uid"])
 		);
-		if ($r) {
+		if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
 			logger("Now import the DFRN feed");
-			dfrn::import($xml,$r[0], true);
+			dfrn::import($xml, $r[0], true);
 			return;
 		}
 	}
 }
 
+/// @TODO type-hint is array
 function item_is_remote_self($contact, &$datarray) {
 	$a = get_app();
 
-	if (!$contact['remote_self'])
+	if (!$contact['remote_self']) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	// Prevent the forwarding of posts that are forwarded
-	if ($datarray["extid"] == NETWORK_DFRN)
+	if ($datarray["extid"] == NETWORK_DFRN) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	// Prevent to forward already forwarded posts
-	if ($datarray["app"] == $a->get_hostname())
+	if ($datarray["app"] == $a->get_hostname()) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	// Only forward posts
-	if ($datarray["verb"] != ACTIVITY_POST)
+	if ($datarray["verb"] != ACTIVITY_POST) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
-	if (($contact['network'] != NETWORK_FEED) AND $datarray['private'])
+	if (($contact['network'] != NETWORK_FEED) AND $datarray['private']) {
 		return false;
+	}
 
 	$datarray2 = $datarray;
 	logger('remote-self start - Contact '.$contact['url'].' - '.$contact['remote_self'].' Item '.print_r($datarray, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
@@ -1479,25 +1558,28 @@ function item_is_remote_self($contact, &$datarray) {
 		if ($contact['network'] != NETWORK_FEED) {
 			$datarray["guid"] = get_guid(32);
 			unset($datarray["plink"]);
-			$datarray["uri"] = item_new_uri($a->get_hostname(),$contact['uid'], $datarray["guid"]);
+			$datarray["uri"] = item_new_uri($a->get_hostname(), $contact['uid'], $datarray["guid"]);
 			$datarray["parent-uri"] = $datarray["uri"];
 			$datarray["extid"] = $contact['network'];
 			$urlpart = parse_url($datarray2['author-link']);
 			$datarray["app"] = $urlpart["host"];
-		} else
+		} else {
 			$datarray['private'] = 0;
+		}
 	}
 
 	if ($contact['network'] != NETWORK_FEED) {
 		// Store the original post
 		$r = item_store($datarray2, false, false);
 		logger('remote-self post original item - Contact '.$contact['url'].' return '.$r.' Item '.print_r($datarray2, true), LOGGER_DEBUG);
-	} else
+	} else {
 		$datarray["app"] = "Feed";
+	}
 
 	return true;
 }
 
+/// @TODO find proper type-hints
 function new_follower($importer, $contact, $datarray, $item, $sharing = false) {
 	$url = notags(trim($datarray['author-link']));
 	$name = notags(trim($datarray['author-name']));
@@ -1548,6 +1630,7 @@ function new_follower($importer, $contact, $datarray, $item, $sharing = false) {
 			update_contact_avatar($photo, $importer["uid"], $contact_record["id"], true);
 		}
 
+		/// @TODO Encapsulate this into a function/method
 		$r = q("SELECT * FROM `user` WHERE `uid` = %d LIMIT 1",
 			intval($importer['uid'])
 		);
@@ -1636,17 +1719,18 @@ function subscribe_to_hub($url, $importer, $contact, $hubmode = 'subscribe') {
 		);
 	}
 
-	// Diaspora has different message-ids in feeds than they do
-	// through the direct Diaspora protocol. If we try and use
-	// the feed, we'll get duplicates. So don't.
-
-	if ((! dbm::is_result($r)) || $contact['network'] === NETWORK_DIASPORA)
+	/*
+	 * Diaspora has different message-ids in feeds than they do
+	 * through the direct Diaspora protocol. If we try and use
+	 * the feed, we'll get duplicates. So don't.
+	 */
+	if ((! dbm::is_result($r)) || $contact['network'] === NETWORK_DIASPORA) {
 		return;
+	}
 
 	$push_url = get_config('system','url') . '/pubsub/' . $r[0]['nickname'] . '/' . $contact['id'];
 
 	// Use a single verify token, even if multiple hubs
-
 	$verify_token = ((strlen($contact['hub-verify'])) ? $contact['hub-verify'] : random_string());
 
 	$params= 'hub.mode=' . $hubmode . '&hub.callback=' . urlencode($push_url) . '&hub.topic=' . urlencode($contact['poll']) . '&hub.verify=async&hub.verify_token=' . $verify_token;
@@ -1660,7 +1744,7 @@ function subscribe_to_hub($url, $importer, $contact, $hubmode = 'subscribe') {
 		);
 	}
 
-	post_url($url,$params);
+	post_url($url, $params);
 
 	logger('subscribe_to_hub: returns: ' . $a->get_curl_code(), LOGGER_DEBUG);
 
@@ -1670,8 +1754,9 @@ function subscribe_to_hub($url, $importer, $contact, $hubmode = 'subscribe') {
 
 function fix_private_photos($s, $uid, $item = null, $cid = 0) {
 
-	if (get_config('system','disable_embedded'))
+	if (get_config('system','disable_embedded')) {
 		return $s;
+	}
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
@@ -1684,7 +1769,7 @@ function fix_private_photos($s, $uid, $item = null, $cid = 0) {
 	$img_start = strpos($orig_body, '[img');
 	$img_st_close = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), ']') : false);
 	$img_len = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close + 1), '[/img]') : false);
-	while( ($img_st_close !== false) && ($img_len !== false) ) {
+	while ( ($img_st_close !== false) && ($img_len !== false) ) {
 
 		$img_st_close++; // make it point to AFTER the closing bracket
 		$image = substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close, $img_len);
@@ -1696,27 +1781,28 @@ function fix_private_photos($s, $uid, $item = null, $cid = 0) {
 			// Only embed locally hosted photos
 			$replace = false;
 			$i = basename($image);
-			$i = str_replace(array('.jpg','.png','.gif'),array('','',''),$i);
-			$x = strpos($i,'-');
+			$i = str_replace(array('.jpg', '.png', '.gif'),array('', '',''), $i);
+			$x = strpos($i, '-');
 
 			if ($x) {
-				$res = substr($i,$x+1);
-				$i = substr($i,0,$x);
+				$res = substr($i, $x + 1);
+				$i = substr($i, 0, $x);
 				$r = q("SELECT * FROM `photo` WHERE `resource-id` = '%s' AND `scale` = %d AND `uid` = %d",
 					dbesc($i),
 					intval($res),
 					intval($uid)
+
 				);
-				if ($r) {
-
-					// Check to see if we should replace this photo link with an embedded image
-					// 1. No need to do so if the photo is public
-					// 2. If there's a contact-id provided, see if they're in the access list
-					//    for the photo. If so, embed it.
-					// 3. Otherwise, if we have an item, see if the item permissions match the photo
-					//    permissions, regardless of order but first check to see if they're an exact
-					//    match to save some processing overhead.
-
+				if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
+					/*
+					 * Check to see if we should replace this photo link with an embedded image
+					 * 1. No need to do so if the photo is public
+					 * 2. If there's a contact-id provided, see if they're in the access list
+					 *    for the photo. If so, embed it.
+					 * 3. Otherwise, if we have an item, see if the item permissions match the photo
+					 *    permissions, regardless of order but first check to see if they're an exact
+					 *    match to save some processing overhead.
+					 */
 					if (has_permissions($r[0])) {
 						if ($cid) {
 							$recips = enumerate_permissions($r[0]);
@@ -1724,8 +1810,9 @@ function fix_private_photos($s, $uid, $item = null, $cid = 0) {
 								$replace = true;
 							}
 						} elseif ($item) {
-							if (compare_permissions($item,$r[0]))
+							if (compare_permissions($item, $r[0])) {
 								$replace = true;
+							}
 						}
 					}
 					if ($replace) {
@@ -1757,8 +1844,9 @@ function fix_private_photos($s, $uid, $item = null, $cid = 0) {
 
 		$new_body = $new_body . substr($orig_body, 0, $img_start + $img_st_close) . $image . '[/img]';
 		$orig_body = substr($orig_body, $img_start + $img_st_close + $img_len + strlen('[/img]'));
-		if ($orig_body === false)
+		if ($orig_body === false) {
 			$orig_body = '';
+		}
 
 		$img_start = strpos($orig_body, '[img');
 		$img_st_close = ($img_start !== false ? strpos(substr($orig_body, $img_start), ']') : false);
@@ -1767,63 +1855,75 @@ function fix_private_photos($s, $uid, $item = null, $cid = 0) {
 
 	$new_body = $new_body . $orig_body;
 
-	return($new_body);
+	return $new_body;
 }
 
+/// @TODO type-hint is array
 function has_permissions($obj) {
-	if (($obj['allow_cid'] != '') || ($obj['allow_gid'] != '') || ($obj['deny_cid'] != '') || ($obj['deny_gid'] != ''))
-		return true;
-	return false;
+	return (
+		(
+			x($obj, 'allow_cid')
+		) || (
+			x($obj, 'allow_gid')
+		) || (
+			x($obj, 'deny_cid')
+		) || (
+			x($obj, 'deny_gid')
+		)
+	);
 }
 
-function compare_permissions($obj1,$obj2) {
+/// @TODO type-hint is array
+function compare_permissions($obj1, $obj2) {
 	// first part is easy. Check that these are exactly the same.
 	if (($obj1['allow_cid'] == $obj2['allow_cid'])
 		&& ($obj1['allow_gid'] == $obj2['allow_gid'])
 		&& ($obj1['deny_cid'] == $obj2['deny_cid'])
-		&& ($obj1['deny_gid'] == $obj2['deny_gid']))
+		&& ($obj1['deny_gid'] == $obj2['deny_gid'])) {
 		return true;
+	}
 
 	// This is harder. Parse all the permissions and compare the resulting set.
-
 	$recipients1 = enumerate_permissions($obj1);
 	$recipients2 = enumerate_permissions($obj2);
 	sort($recipients1);
 	sort($recipients2);
-	if ($recipients1 == $recipients2)
-		return true;
-	return false;
+
+	/// @TODO Comparison of arrays, maybe use array_diff_assoc() here?
+	return ($recipients1 == $recipients2);
 }
 
 // returns an array of contact-ids that are allowed to see this object
-
+/// @TODO type-hint is array
 function enumerate_permissions($obj) {
 	$allow_people = expand_acl($obj['allow_cid']);
 	$allow_groups = expand_groups(expand_acl($obj['allow_gid']));
 	$deny_people  = expand_acl($obj['deny_cid']);
 	$deny_groups  = expand_groups(expand_acl($obj['deny_gid']));
-	$recipients   = array_unique(array_merge($allow_people,$allow_groups));
-	$deny         = array_unique(array_merge($deny_people,$deny_groups));
-	$recipients   = array_diff($recipients,$deny);
+	$recipients   = array_unique(array_merge($allow_people, $allow_groups));
+	$deny         = array_unique(array_merge($deny_people, $deny_groups));
+	$recipients   = array_diff($recipients, $deny);
 	return $recipients;
 }
 
 function item_getfeedtags($item) {
 	$ret = array();
 	$matches = false;
-	$cnt = preg_match_all('|\#\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]|',$item['tag'],$matches);
+	$cnt = preg_match_all('|\#\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]|', $item['tag'], $matches);
 	if ($cnt) {
-		for($x = 0; $x < $cnt; $x ++) {
-			if ($matches[1][$x])
-				$ret[$matches[2][$x]] = array('#',$matches[1][$x], $matches[2][$x]);
+		for ($x = 0; $x < $cnt; $x ++) {
+			if ($matches[1][$x]) {
+				$ret[$matches[2][$x]] = array('#', $matches[1][$x], $matches[2][$x]);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	$matches = false;
-	$cnt = preg_match_all('|\@\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]|',$item['tag'],$matches);
+	$cnt = preg_match_all('|\@\[url\=(.*?)\](.*?)\[\/url\]|', $item['tag'], $matches);
 	if ($cnt) {
-		for($x = 0; $x < $cnt; $x ++) {
-			if ($matches[1][$x])
-				$ret[] = array('@',$matches[1][$x], $matches[2][$x]);
+		for ($x = 0; $x < $cnt; $x ++) {
+			if ($matches[1][$x]) {
+				$ret[] = array('@', $matches[1][$x], $matches[2][$x]);
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	return $ret;
@@ -1831,23 +1931,29 @@ function item_getfeedtags($item) {
 
 function item_expire($uid, $days, $network = "", $force = false) {
 
-	if ((! $uid) || ($days < 1))
+	if ((! $uid) || ($days < 1)) {
 		return;
+	}
 
-	// $expire_network_only = save your own wall posts
-	// and just expire conversations started by others
-
-	$expire_network_only = get_pconfig($uid,'expire','network_only');
+	/*
+	 * $expire_network_only = save your own wall posts
+	 * and just expire conversations started by others
+	 */
+	$expire_network_only = get_pconfig($uid,'expire', 'network_only');
 	$sql_extra = ((intval($expire_network_only)) ? " AND wall = 0 " : "");
 
 	if ($network != "") {
 		$sql_extra .= sprintf(" AND network = '%s' ", dbesc($network));
-		// There is an index "uid_network_received" but not "uid_network_created"
-		// This avoids the creation of another index just for one purpose.
-		// And it doesn't really matter wether to look at "received" or "created"
+
+		/*
+		 * There is an index "uid_network_received" but not "uid_network_created"
+		 * This avoids the creation of another index just for one purpose.
+		 * And it doesn't really matter wether to look at "received" or "created"
+		 */
 		$range = "AND `received` < UTC_TIMESTAMP() - INTERVAL %d DAY ";
-	} else
+	} else {
 		$range = "AND `created` < UTC_TIMESTAMP() - INTERVAL %d DAY ";
+	}
 
 	$r = q("SELECT `file`, `resource-id`, `starred`, `type`, `id` FROM `item`
 		WHERE `uid` = %d $range
@@ -1858,61 +1964,66 @@ function item_expire($uid, $days, $network = "", $force = false) {
 		intval($days)
 	);
 
-	if (! dbm::is_result($r))
+	if (! dbm::is_result($r)) {
 		return;
+	}
 
-	$expire_items = get_pconfig($uid, 'expire','items');
-	$expire_items = (($expire_items===false)?1:intval($expire_items)); // default if not set: 1
+	$expire_items = get_pconfig($uid, 'expire', 'items');
+	$expire_items = (($expire_items === false) ? 1 : intval($expire_items)); // default if not set: 1
 
 	// Forcing expiring of items - but not notes and marked items
-	if ($force)
+	if ($force) {
 		$expire_items = true;
+	}
 
-	$expire_notes = get_pconfig($uid, 'expire','notes');
-	$expire_notes = (($expire_notes===false)?1:intval($expire_notes)); // default if not set: 1
+	$expire_notes = get_pconfig($uid, 'expire', 'notes');
+	$expire_notes = (($expire_notes === false) ? 1 : intval($expire_notes)); // default if not set: 1
 
-	$expire_starred = get_pconfig($uid, 'expire','starred');
-	$expire_starred = (($expire_starred===false)?1:intval($expire_starred)); // default if not set: 1
+	$expire_starred = get_pconfig($uid, 'expire', 'starred');
+	$expire_starred = (($expire_starred === false) ? 1 : intval($expire_starred)); // default if not set: 1
 
-	$expire_photos = get_pconfig($uid, 'expire','photos');
-	$expire_photos = (($expire_photos===false)?0:intval($expire_photos)); // default if not set: 0
+	$expire_photos = get_pconfig($uid, 'expire', 'photos');
+	$expire_photos = (($expire_photos === false) ? 0 : intval($expire_photos)); // default if not set: 0
 
 	logger('expire: # items=' . count($r). "; expire items: $expire_items, expire notes: $expire_notes, expire starred: $expire_starred, expire photos: $expire_photos");
 
-	foreach($r as $item) {
+	foreach ($r as $item) {
 
 		// don't expire filed items
 
-		if (strpos($item['file'],'[') !== false)
+		if (strpos($item['file'],'[') !== false) {
 			continue;
+		}
 
 		// Only expire posts, not photos and photo comments
 
-		if ($expire_photos==0 && strlen($item['resource-id']))
+		if ($expire_photos == 0 && strlen($item['resource-id'])) {
 			continue;
-		if ($expire_starred==0 && intval($item['starred']))
+		} elseif ($expire_starred == 0 && intval($item['starred'])) {
 			continue;
-		if ($expire_notes==0 && $item['type']=='note')
+		} elseif ($expire_notes == 0 && $item['type'] == 'note') {
 			continue;
-		if ($expire_items==0 && $item['type']!='note')
+		} elseif ($expire_items == 0 && $item['type'] != 'note') {
 			continue;
+		}
 
-		drop_item($item['id'],false);
+		drop_item($item['id'], false);
 	}
 
-	proc_run(PRIORITY_HIGH,"include/notifier.php", "expire", $uid);
+	proc_run(PRIORITY_HIGH, "include/notifier.php", "expire", $uid);
 
 }
 
-
+/// @TODO type-hint is array
 function drop_items($items) {
 	$uid = 0;
 
-	if (! local_user() && ! remote_user())
+	if (! local_user() && ! remote_user()) {
 		return;
+	}
 
 	if (count($items)) {
-		foreach($items as $item) {
+		foreach ($items as $item) {
 			$owner = drop_item($item,false);
 			if ($owner && ! $uid)
 				$uid = $owner;
@@ -1921,12 +2032,13 @@ function drop_items($items) {
 
 	// multiple threads may have been deleted, send an expire notification
 
-	if ($uid)
-		proc_run(PRIORITY_HIGH,"include/notifier.php", "expire", $uid);
+	if ($uid) {
+		proc_run(PRIORITY_HIGH, "include/notifier.php", "expire", $uid);
+	}
 }
 
 
-function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
+function drop_item($id, $interactive = true) {
 
 	$a = get_app();
 
@@ -1937,8 +2049,9 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 	);
 
 	if (! dbm::is_result($r)) {
-		if (! $interactive)
+		if (! $interactive) {
 			return 0;
+		}
 		notice( t('Item not found.') . EOL);
 		goaway(App::get_baseurl() . '/' . $_SESSION['return_url']);
 	}
@@ -1952,7 +2065,7 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 	// check if logged in user is either the author or owner of this item
 
 	if (is_array($_SESSION['remote'])) {
-		foreach($_SESSION['remote'] as $visitor) {
+		foreach ($_SESSION['remote'] as $visitor) {
 			if ($visitor['uid'] == $item['uid'] && $visitor['cid'] == $item['contact-id']) {
 				$contact_id = $visitor['cid'];
 				break;
@@ -1969,7 +2082,7 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 			// so add any arguments as hidden inputs
 			$query = explode_querystring($a->query_string);
 			$inputs = array();
-			foreach($query['args'] as $arg) {
+			foreach ($query['args'] as $arg) {
 				if (strpos($arg, 'confirm=') === false) {
 					$arg_parts = explode('=', $arg);
 					$inputs[] = array('name' => $arg_parts[0], 'value' => $arg_parts[1]);
@@ -2006,27 +2119,28 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 		// clean up categories and tags so they don't end up as orphans
 
 		$matches = false;
-		$cnt = preg_match_all('/<(.*?)>/',$item['file'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
+		$cnt = preg_match_all('/<(.*?)>/', $item['file'], $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 		if ($cnt) {
-			foreach($matches as $mtch) {
-				file_tag_unsave_file($item['uid'],$item['id'],$mtch[1],true);
+			foreach ($matches as $mtch) {
+				file_tag_unsave_file($item['uid'], $item['id'], $mtch[1],true);
 			}
 		}
 
 		$matches = false;
 
-		$cnt = preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/',$item['file'],$matches,PREG_SET_ORDER);
+		$cnt = preg_match_all('/\[(.*?)\]/', $item['file'], $matches, PREG_SET_ORDER);
 		if ($cnt) {
-			foreach($matches as $mtch) {
-				file_tag_unsave_file($item['uid'],$item['id'],$mtch[1],false);
+			foreach ($matches as $mtch) {
+				file_tag_unsave_file($item['uid'], $item['id'], $mtch[1],false);
 			}
 		}
 
-		// If item is a link to a photo resource, nuke all the associated photos
-		// (visitors will not have photo resources)
-		// This only applies to photos uploaded from the photos page. Photos inserted into a post do not
-		// generate a resource-id and therefore aren't intimately linked to the item.
-
+		/*
+		 * If item is a link to a photo resource, nuke all the associated photos
+		 * (visitors will not have photo resources)
+		 * This only applies to photos uploaded from the photos page. Photos inserted into a post do not
+		 * generate a resource-id and therefore aren't intimately linked to the item.
+		 */
 		if (strlen($item['resource-id'])) {
 			q("DELETE FROM `photo` WHERE `resource-id` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d ",
 				dbesc($item['resource-id']),
@@ -2036,7 +2150,6 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 		}
 
 		// If item is a link to an event, nuke the event record.
-
 		if (intval($item['event-id'])) {
 			q("DELETE FROM `event` WHERE `id` = %d AND `uid` = %d",
 				intval($item['event-id']),
@@ -2046,8 +2159,7 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 		}
 
 		// If item has attachments, drop them
-
-		foreach(explode(",",$item['attach']) as $attach){
+		foreach (explode(", ", $item['attach']) as $attach) {
 			preg_match("|attach/(\d+)|", $attach, $matches);
 			q("DELETE FROM `attach` WHERE `id` = %d AND `uid` = %d",
 				intval($matches[1]),
@@ -2060,7 +2172,7 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 		// clean up item_id and sign meta-data tables
 
 		/*
-		// Old code - caused very long queries and warning entries in the mysql logfiles:
+		/// @TODO Old code - caused very long queries and warning entries in the mysql logfiles:
 
 		$r = q("DELETE FROM item_id where iid in (select id from item where parent = %d and uid = %d)",
 			intval($item['id']),
@@ -2076,29 +2188,28 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 		// The new code splits the queries since the mysql optimizer really has bad problems with subqueries
 
 		// Creating list of parents
-		$r = q("select id from item where parent = %d and uid = %d",
+		$r = q("SELECT `id` FROM `item` WHERE `parent` = %d AND `uid` = %d",
 			intval($item['id']),
 			intval($item['uid'])
 		);
 
 		$parentid = "";
 
-		foreach ($r AS $row) {
-			if ($parentid != "")
+		foreach ($r as $row) {
+			if ($parentid != "") {
 				$parentid .= ", ";
+			}
 
 			$parentid .= $row["id"];
 		}
 
 		// Now delete them
 		if ($parentid != "") {
-			$r = q("DELETE FROM item_id where iid in (%s)", dbesc($parentid));
-
-			$r = q("DELETE FROM sign where iid in (%s)", dbesc($parentid));
+			$r = q("DELETE FROM `item_id` WHERE `iid` IN (%s)", dbesc($parentid));
+			$r = q("DELETE FROM `sign` WHERE `iid` IN (%s)", dbesc($parentid));
 		}
 
 		// If it's the parent of a comment thread, kill all the kids
-
 		if ($item['uri'] == $item['parent-uri']) {
 			$r = q("UPDATE `item` SET `deleted` = 1, `edited` = '%s', `changed` = '%s', `body` = '' , `title` = ''
 				WHERE `parent-uri` = '%s' AND `uid` = %d ",
@@ -2134,15 +2245,17 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 
 		// send the notification upstream/downstream as the case may be
 
-		proc_run(PRIORITY_HIGH,"include/notifier.php", "drop", $drop_id);
+		proc_run(PRIORITY_HIGH, "include/notifier.php", "drop", $drop_id);
 
-		if (! $interactive)
+		if (! $interactive) {
 			return $owner;
+		}
 		goaway(App::get_baseurl() . '/' . $_SESSION['return_url']);
 		//NOTREACHED
 	} else {
-		if (! $interactive)
+		if (! $interactive) {
 			return 0;
+		}
 		notice( t('Permission denied.') . EOL);
 		goaway(App::get_baseurl() . '/' . $_SESSION['return_url']);
 		//NOTREACHED
@@ -2151,101 +2264,113 @@ function drop_item($id,$interactive = true) {
 }
 
 
-function first_post_date($uid,$wall = false) {
-	$r = q("select id, created from item
-		where uid = %d and wall = %d and deleted = 0 and visible = 1 AND moderated = 0
-		and id = parent
-		order by created asc limit 1",
+function first_post_date($uid, $wall = false) {
+	$r = q("SELECT `id`, `created` FROM `item`
+		WHERE `uid` = %d AND `wall` = %d AND `deleted` = 0 AND `visible` = 1 AND `moderated` = 0
+		AND `id` = `parent`
+		ORDER BY `created` ASC LIMIT 1",
 		intval($uid),
 		intval($wall ? 1 : 0)
 	);
 	if (dbm::is_result($r)) {
-//		logger('first_post_date: ' . $r[0]['id'] . ' ' . $r[0]['created'], LOGGER_DATA);
-		return substr(datetime_convert('',date_default_timezone_get(),$r[0]['created']),0,10);
+		// logger('first_post_date: ' . $r[0]['id'] . ' ' . $r[0]['created'], LOGGER_DATA);
+		return substr(datetime_convert('',date_default_timezone_get(), $r[0]['created']),0,10);
 	}
 	return false;
 }
 
 /* modified posted_dates() {below} to arrange the list in years */
 function list_post_dates($uid, $wall) {
-	$dnow = datetime_convert('',date_default_timezone_get(),'now','Y-m-d');
+	$dnow = datetime_convert('',date_default_timezone_get(), 'now','Y-m-d');
 
 	$dthen = first_post_date($uid, $wall);
-	if (! $dthen)
+	if (! $dthen) {
 		return array();
+	}
 
 	// Set the start and end date to the beginning of the month
-	$dnow = substr($dnow,0,8).'01';
-	$dthen = substr($dthen,0,8).'01';
+	$dnow = substr($dnow, 0, 8) . '01';
+	$dthen = substr($dthen, 0, 8) . '01';
 
 	$ret = array();
 
-	// Starting with the current month, get the first and last days of every
-	// month down to and including the month of the first post
-	while(substr($dnow, 0, 7) >= substr($dthen, 0, 7)) {
-		$dyear = intval(substr($dnow,0,4));
-		$dstart = substr($dnow,0,8) . '01';
-		$dend = substr($dnow,0,8) . get_dim(intval($dnow),intval(substr($dnow,5)));
-		$start_month = datetime_convert('','',$dstart,'Y-m-d');
-		$end_month = datetime_convert('','',$dend,'Y-m-d');
-		$str = day_translate(datetime_convert('','',$dnow,'F'));
-		if (! $ret[$dyear])
+	/*
+	 * Starting with the current month, get the first and last days of every
+	 * month down to and including the month of the first post
+	 */
+	while (substr($dnow, 0, 7) >= substr($dthen, 0, 7)) {
+		$dyear = intval(substr($dnow, 0, 4));
+		$dstart = substr($dnow, 0, 8) . '01';
+		$dend = substr($dnow, 0, 8) . get_dim(intval($dnow), intval(substr($dnow, 5)));
+		$start_month = datetime_convert('', '', $dstart, 'Y-m-d');
+		$end_month = datetime_convert('', '', $dend, 'Y-m-d');
+		$str = day_translate(datetime_convert('', '', $dnow, 'F'));
+		if (!$ret[$dyear]) {
 			$ret[$dyear] = array();
-		$ret[$dyear][] = array($str,$end_month,$start_month);
-		$dnow = datetime_convert('','',$dnow . ' -1 month', 'Y-m-d');
+		}
+		$ret[$dyear][] = array($str, $end_month, $start_month);
+		$dnow = datetime_convert('', '', $dnow . ' -1 month', 'Y-m-d');
 	}
 	return $ret;
 }
 
-function posted_dates($uid,$wall) {
-	$dnow = datetime_convert('',date_default_timezone_get(),'now','Y-m-d');
+function posted_dates($uid, $wall) {
+	$dnow = datetime_convert('', date_default_timezone_get(), 'now', 'Y-m-d');
 
-	$dthen = first_post_date($uid,$wall);
-	if (! $dthen)
+	$dthen = first_post_date($uid, $wall);
+	if (! $dthen) {
 		return array();
+	}
 
 	// Set the start and end date to the beginning of the month
-	$dnow = substr($dnow,0,8).'01';
-	$dthen = substr($dthen,0,8).'01';
+	$dnow = substr($dnow, 0, 8) . '01';
+	$dthen = substr($dthen, 0, 8) . '01';
 
 	$ret = array();
-	// Starting with the current month, get the first and last days of every
-	// month down to and including the month of the first post
-	while(substr($dnow, 0, 7) >= substr($dthen, 0, 7)) {
-		$dstart = substr($dnow,0,8) . '01';
-		$dend = substr($dnow,0,8) . get_dim(intval($dnow),intval(substr($dnow,5)));
-		$start_month = datetime_convert('','',$dstart,'Y-m-d');
-		$end_month = datetime_convert('','',$dend,'Y-m-d');
-		$str = day_translate(datetime_convert('','',$dnow,'F Y'));
-		$ret[] = array($str,$end_month,$start_month);
-		$dnow = datetime_convert('','',$dnow . ' -1 month', 'Y-m-d');
+	/*
+	 * Starting with the current month, get the first and last days of every
+	 * month down to and including the month of the first post
+	 */
+	while (substr($dnow, 0, 7) >= substr($dthen, 0, 7)) {
+		$dstart = substr($dnow, 0, 8) . '01';
+		$dend = substr($dnow, 0, 8) . get_dim(intval($dnow), intval(substr($dnow, 5)));
+		$start_month = datetime_convert('', '', $dstart, 'Y-m-d');
+		$end_month = datetime_convert('', '', $dend, 'Y-m-d');
+		$str = day_translate(datetime_convert('', '', $dnow, 'F Y'));
+		$ret[] = array($str, $end_month, $start_month);
+		$dnow = datetime_convert('', '', $dnow . ' -1 month', 'Y-m-d');
 	}
 	return $ret;
 }
 
 
-function posted_date_widget($url,$uid,$wall) {
+function posted_date_widget($url, $uid, $wall) {
 	$o = '';
 
-	if (! feature_enabled($uid,'archives'))
+	if (! feature_enabled($uid, 'archives')) {
 		return $o;
+	}
 
 	// For former Facebook folks that left because of "timeline"
-
-/*	if ($wall && intval(get_pconfig($uid,'system','no_wall_archive_widget')))
-		return $o;*/
+	/*
+	 * @TODO old-lost code?
+	if ($wall && intval(get_pconfig($uid, 'system', 'no_wall_archive_widget')))
+		return $o;
+	*/
 
 	$visible_years = get_pconfig($uid,'system','archive_visible_years');
-	if (! $visible_years)
+	if (! $visible_years) {
 		$visible_years = 5;
+	}
 
-	$ret = list_post_dates($uid,$wall);
+	$ret = list_post_dates($uid, $wall);
 
-	if (! dbm::is_result($ret))
+	if (! dbm::is_result($ret)) {
 		return $o;
+	}
 
-	$cutoff_year = intval(datetime_convert('',date_default_timezone_get(),'now','Y')) - $visible_years;
-	$cutoff = ((array_key_exists($cutoff_year,$ret))? true : false);
+	$cutoff_year = intval(datetime_convert('',date_default_timezone_get(), 'now', 'Y')) - $visible_years;
+	$cutoff = ((array_key_exists($cutoff_year, $ret))? true : false);
 
 	$o = replace_macros(get_markup_template('posted_date_widget.tpl'),array(
 		'$title' => t('Archives'),