diff --git a/include/message.php b/include/message.php
index 5bd611f220..3d5d4d33ab 100644
--- a/include/message.php
+++ b/include/message.php
@@ -153,8 +153,7 @@ function send_message($recipient=0, $body='', $subject='', $replyto=''){
 	if ($post_id) {
 		proc_run(PRIORITY_HIGH, "include/notifier.php", "mail", $post_id);
 		return intval($post_id);
-	}
-	else {
+	} else {
 		return -3;
 	}
 
diff --git a/mod/dirfind.php b/mod/dirfind.php
index 1a78421671..0ac82f2817 100644
--- a/mod/dirfind.php
+++ b/mod/dirfind.php
@@ -88,20 +88,19 @@ function dirfind_content(&$a, $prefix = "") {
 
 			if (get_config('system','diaspora_enabled')) {
 				$diaspora = NETWORK_DIASPORA;
-			}
-			else {
+			} else {
 				$diaspora = NETWORK_DFRN;
 			}
 
 			if (!get_config('system','ostatus_disabled')) {
 				$ostatus = NETWORK_OSTATUS;
-			}
-			else {
+			} else {
 				$ostatus = NETWORK_DFRN;
 			}
 
 			$search2 = "%".$search."%";
 
+			/// @TODO These 2 SELECTs are not checked on validity with dbm::is_result()
 			$count = q("SELECT count(*) AS `total` FROM `gcontact`
 					LEFT JOIN `contact` ON `contact`.`nurl` = `gcontact`.`nurl`
 						AND `contact`.`network` = `gcontact`.`network`
@@ -200,8 +199,7 @@ function dirfind_content(&$a, $prefix = "") {
 						$photo_menu = contact_photo_menu($contact[0]);
 						$details = _contact_detail_for_template($contact[0]);
 						$alt_text = $details['alt_text'];
-					}
-					else {
+					} else {
 						$photo_menu = array();
 					}
 				} else {
@@ -243,8 +241,7 @@ function dirfind_content(&$a, $prefix = "") {
 			'$paginate' => paginate($a),
 		));
 
-		}
-		else {
+		} else {
 			info( t('No matches') . EOL);
 		}
 
diff --git a/mod/follow.php b/mod/follow.php
index eb5570e8ab..2e970ad0cb 100644
--- a/mod/follow.php
+++ b/mod/follow.php
@@ -56,10 +56,11 @@ function follow_content(&$a) {
 		// NOTREACHED
 	}
 
-	if ($ret["network"] == NETWORK_MAIL)
+	if ($ret["network"] == NETWORK_MAIL) {
 		$ret["url"] = $ret["addr"];
+	}
 
-	if($ret['network'] === NETWORK_DFRN) {
+	if ($ret['network'] === NETWORK_DFRN) {
 		$request = $ret["request"];
 		$tpl = get_markup_template('dfrn_request.tpl');
 	} else {
@@ -84,20 +85,22 @@ function follow_content(&$a) {
 	$r = q("SELECT `id`, `location`, `about`, `keywords` FROM `gcontact` WHERE `nurl` = '%s'",
 		normalise_link($ret["url"]));
 
-	if (!$r)
+	if (!$r) {
 		$r = array(array("location" => "", "about" => "", "keywords" => ""));
-	else
+	} else {
 		$gcontact_id = $r[0]["id"];
+	}
 
-	if($ret['network'] === NETWORK_DIASPORA) {
+	if ($ret['network'] === NETWORK_DIASPORA) {
 		$r[0]["location"] = "";
 		$r[0]["about"] = "";
 	}
 
 	$header = $ret["name"];
 
-	if ($ret["addr"] != "")
+	if ($ret["addr"] != "") {
 		$header .= " <".$ret["addr"].">";
+	}
 
 	//$header .= " (".network_to_name($ret['network'], $ret['url']).")";
 	$header = t("Connect/Follow");
@@ -176,8 +179,7 @@ function follow_post(&$a) {
 			notice($result['message']);
 		}
 		goaway($return_url);
-	}
-	elseif ($result['cid']) {
+	} elseif ($result['cid']) {
 		goaway(App::get_baseurl().'/contacts/'.$result['cid']);
 	}
 
diff --git a/mod/home.php b/mod/home.php
index 0e83340cc3..eb5d1e90b0 100644
--- a/mod/home.php
+++ b/mod/home.php
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ function home_init(&$a) {
 
 }}
 
-
 if(! function_exists('home_content')) {
 function home_content(&$a) {
 
@@ -35,9 +34,8 @@ function home_content(&$a) {
 			$a->page['htmlhead'] .= '<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="'.App::get_baseurl().'/home.css'.'" media="all" />';
 		}
 
-		$o .= file_get_contents('home.html');}
-
-	else {
+		$o .= file_get_contents('home.html');
+	} else {
 		$o .= '<h1>'.((x($a->config,'sitename')) ? sprintf(t("Welcome to %s"), $a->config['sitename']) : "").'</h1>';
 	}
 
@@ -48,5 +46,4 @@ function home_content(&$a) {
 
 	return $o;
 
-
 }}
diff --git a/mod/install.php b/mod/install.php
index 73216e7f88..b13da8c28f 100755
--- a/mod/install.php
+++ b/mod/install.php
@@ -11,17 +11,16 @@ function install_init(&$a){
 		echo "ok";
 		killme();
 	}
-	
+
 	// We overwrite current theme css, because during install we could not have a working mod_rewrite
 	// so we could not have a css at all. Here we set a static css file for the install procedure pages
 	$a->config['system']['theme'] = "../install";
 	$a->theme['stylesheet'] = App::get_baseurl()."/view/install/style.css";
-	
-	
-	
+
 	global $install_wizard_pass;
-	if (x($_POST,'pass'))
+	if (x($_POST,'pass')) {
 		$install_wizard_pass = intval($_POST['pass']);
+	}
 
 }
 
@@ -63,7 +62,7 @@ function install_post(&$a) {
 					return;
 				}
 			}*/
-			if(get_db_errno()) {
+			if (get_db_errno()) {
 				$a->data['db_conn_failed']=true;
 			}
 
@@ -107,17 +106,18 @@ function install_post(&$a) {
 
 
 			$result = file_put_contents('.htconfig.php', $txt);
-			if(! $result) {
+			if (! $result) {
 				$a->data['txt'] = $txt;
 			}
 
 			$errors = load_database($db);
 
 
-			if($errors)
+			if ($errors) {
 				$a->data['db_failed'] = $errors;
-			else
+			} else {
 				$a->data['db_installed'] = true;
+			}
 
 			return;
 		break;
@@ -125,10 +125,11 @@ function install_post(&$a) {
 }
 
 function get_db_errno() {
-	if(class_exists('mysqli'))
+	if (class_exists('mysqli')) {
 		return mysqli_connect_errno();
-	else
+	} else {
 		return mysql_errno();
+	}
 }
 
 function install_content(&$a) {
@@ -140,23 +141,23 @@ function install_content(&$a) {
 
 
 
-	if(x($a->data,'db_conn_failed')) {
+	if (x($a->data,'db_conn_failed')) {
 		$install_wizard_pass = 2;
 		$wizard_status =  t('Could not connect to database.');
 	}
-	if(x($a->data,'db_create_failed')) {
+	if (x($a->data,'db_create_failed')) {
 		$install_wizard_pass = 2;
 		$wizard_status =  t('Could not create table.');
 	}
 
 	$db_return_text="";
-	if(x($a->data,'db_installed')) {
+	if (x($a->data,'db_installed')) {
 		$txt = '<p style="font-size: 130%;">';
 		$txt .= t('Your Friendica site database has been installed.') . EOL;
 		$db_return_text .= $txt;
 	}
 
-	if(x($a->data,'db_failed')) {
+	if (x($a->data,'db_failed')) {
 		$txt = t('You may need to import the file "database.sql" manually using phpmyadmin or mysql.') . EOL;
 		$txt .= t('Please see the file "INSTALL.txt".') . EOL ."<hr>" ;
 		$txt .= "<pre>".$a->data['db_failed'] . "</pre>". EOL ;
@@ -176,7 +177,7 @@ function install_content(&$a) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if(x($a->data,'txt') && strlen($a->data['txt'])) {
+	if (x($a->data,'txt') && strlen($a->data['txt'])) {
 		$db_return_text .= manual_config($a);
 	}
 
@@ -205,16 +206,19 @@ function install_content(&$a) {
 
 			check_keys($checks);
 
-			if(x($_POST,'phpath'))
+			if (x($_POST,'phpath')) {
 				$phpath = notags(trim($_POST['phpath']));
+			}
 
 			check_php($phpath, $checks);
 
-            check_htaccess($checks);
+			check_htaccess($checks);
 
+			/// @TODO Maybe move this out?
 			function check_passed($v, $c){
-				if ($c['required'])
+				if ($c['required']) {
 					$v = $v && $c['status'];
+				}
 				return $v;
 			}
 			$checkspassed = array_reduce($checks, "check_passed", true);
@@ -343,7 +347,7 @@ function check_php(&$phpath, &$checks) {
 		$passed = strlen($phpath);
 	}
 	$help = "";
-	if(!$passed) {
+	if (!$passed) {
 		$help .= t('Could not find a command line version of PHP in the web server PATH.'). EOL;
 		$help .= t("If you don't have a command line version of PHP installed on server, you will not be able to run background polling via cron. See <a href='https://github.com/friendica/friendica/blob/master/doc/Install.md#set-up-the-poller'>'Setup the poller'</a>") . EOL ;
 		$help .= EOL . EOL ;
@@ -370,7 +374,7 @@ function check_php(&$phpath, &$checks) {
 	}
 
 
-	if($passed2) {
+	if ($passed2) {
 		$str = autoname(8);
 		$cmd = "$phpath testargs.php $str";
 		$result = trim(shell_exec($cmd));
@@ -392,15 +396,17 @@ function check_keys(&$checks) {
 
 	$res = false;
 
-	if(function_exists('openssl_pkey_new'))
-		$res=openssl_pkey_new(array(
-		'digest_alg' => 'sha1',
-		'private_key_bits' => 4096,
-		'encrypt_key' => false ));
+	if (function_exists('openssl_pkey_new')) {
+		$res = openssl_pkey_new(array(
+			'digest_alg'       => 'sha1',
+			'private_key_bits' => 4096,
+			'encrypt_key'      => false
+		));
+	}
 
 	// Get private key
 
-	if(! $res) {
+	if (! $res) {
 		$help .= t('Error: the "openssl_pkey_new" function on this system is not able to generate encryption keys'). EOL;
 		$help .= t('If running under Windows, please see "http://www.php.net/manual/en/openssl.installation.php".');
 	}
@@ -420,7 +426,7 @@ function check_funcs(&$checks) {
 	check_add($ck_funcs, t('XML PHP module'), true, true, "");
 	check_add($ck_funcs, t('iconv module'), true, true, "");
 
-	if(function_exists('apache_get_modules')){
+	if (function_exists('apache_get_modules')){
 		if (! in_array('mod_rewrite',apache_get_modules())) {
 			check_add($ck_funcs, t('Apache mod_rewrite module'), false, true, t('Error: Apache webserver mod-rewrite module is required but not installed.'));
 		} else {
@@ -428,31 +434,31 @@ function check_funcs(&$checks) {
 		}
 	}
 
-	if(! function_exists('curl_init')){
+	if (! function_exists('curl_init')){
 		$ck_funcs[0]['status']= false;
 		$ck_funcs[0]['help']= t('Error: libCURL PHP module required but not installed.');
 	}
-	if(! function_exists('imagecreatefromjpeg')){
+	if (! function_exists('imagecreatefromjpeg')){
 		$ck_funcs[1]['status']= false;
 		$ck_funcs[1]['help']= t('Error: GD graphics PHP module with JPEG support required but not installed.');
 	}
-	if(! function_exists('openssl_public_encrypt')) {
+	if (! function_exists('openssl_public_encrypt')) {
 		$ck_funcs[2]['status']= false;
 		$ck_funcs[2]['help']= t('Error: openssl PHP module required but not installed.');
 	}
-	if(! function_exists('mysqli_connect')){
+	if (! function_exists('mysqli_connect')){
 		$ck_funcs[3]['status']= false;
 		$ck_funcs[3]['help']= t('Error: mysqli PHP module required but not installed.');
 	}
-	if(! function_exists('mb_strlen')){
+	if (! function_exists('mb_strlen')){
 		$ck_funcs[4]['status']= false;
 		$ck_funcs[4]['help']= t('Error: mb_string PHP module required but not installed.');
 	}
-	if(! function_exists('mcrypt_create_iv')){
+	if (! function_exists('mcrypt_create_iv')){
 		$ck_funcs[5]['status']= false;
 		$ck_funcs[5]['help']= t('Error: mcrypt PHP module required but not installed.');
 	}
-	if(! function_exists('iconv_strlen')){
+	if (! function_exists('iconv_strlen')){
 		$ck_funcs[7]['status']= false;
 		$ck_funcs[7]['help']= t('Error: iconv PHP module required but not installed.');
 	}
@@ -487,7 +493,7 @@ function check_funcs(&$checks) {
 function check_htconfig(&$checks) {
 	$status = true;
 	$help = "";
-	if(	(file_exists('.htconfig.php') && !is_writable('.htconfig.php')) ||
+	if ((file_exists('.htconfig.php') && !is_writable('.htconfig.php')) ||
 		(!file_exists('.htconfig.php') && !is_writable('.')) ) {
 
 		$status=false;
@@ -504,7 +510,7 @@ function check_htconfig(&$checks) {
 function check_smarty3(&$checks) {
 	$status = true;
 	$help = "";
-	if(	!is_writable('view/smarty3') ) {
+	if (!is_writable('view/smarty3') ) {
 
 		$status=false;
 		$help = t('Friendica uses the Smarty3 template engine to render its web views. Smarty3 compiles templates to PHP to speed up rendering.') .EOL;
@@ -532,8 +538,7 @@ function check_htaccess(&$checks) {
 			$help = t('Url rewrite in .htaccess is not working. Check your server configuration.');
 		}
 		check_add($checks, t('Url rewrite is working'), $status, true, $help);
-	}
-	else {
+	} else {
 		// cannot check modrewrite if libcurl is not installed
 		/// @TODO Maybe issue warning here?
 	}
@@ -552,8 +557,7 @@ function check_imagik(&$checks) {
 	}
 	if ($imagick == false) {
 		check_add($checks, t('ImageMagick PHP extension is not installed'), $imagick, false, "");
-	}
-	else {
+	} else {
 		check_add($checks, t('ImageMagick PHP extension is installed'), $imagick, false, "");
 		if ($imagick) {
 			check_add($checks, t('ImageMagick supports GIF'), $gif, false, "");
@@ -561,8 +565,6 @@ function check_imagik(&$checks) {
 	}
 }
 
-
-
 function manual_config(&$a) {
 	$data = htmlentities($a->data['txt'],ENT_COMPAT,'UTF-8');
 	$o = t('The database configuration file ".htconfig.php" could not be written. Please use the enclosed text to create a configuration file in your web server root.');
diff --git a/mod/invite.php b/mod/invite.php
index 12f8306e8a..441d39e6e0 100644
--- a/mod/invite.php
+++ b/mod/invite.php
@@ -19,14 +19,15 @@ function invite_post(&$a) {
 	check_form_security_token_redirectOnErr('/', 'send_invite');
 
 	$max_invites = intval(get_config('system','max_invites'));
-	if(! $max_invites)
+	if (! $max_invites) {
 		$max_invites = 50;
+	}
 
 	$current_invites = intval(get_pconfig(local_user(),'system','sent_invites'));
-	if($current_invites > $max_invites) {
+	if ($current_invites > $max_invites) {
 		notice( t('Total invitation limit exceeded.') . EOL);
 		return;
-	};
+	}
 
 
 	$recips  = ((x($_POST,'recipients')) ? explode("\n",$_POST['recipients']) : array());
@@ -34,23 +35,24 @@ function invite_post(&$a) {
 
 	$total = 0;
 
-	if(get_config('system','invitation_only')) {
+	if (get_config('system','invitation_only')) {
 		$invonly = true;
 		$x = get_pconfig(local_user(),'system','invites_remaining');
-		if((! $x) && (! is_site_admin()))
+		if ((! $x) && (! is_site_admin())) {
 			return;
+		}
 	}
 
-	foreach($recips as $recip) {
+	foreach ($recips as $recip) {
 
 		$recip = trim($recip);
 
-		if(! valid_email($recip)) {
+		if (! valid_email($recip)) {
 			notice(  sprintf( t('%s : Not a valid email address.'), $recip) . EOL);
 			continue;
 		}
-		
-		if($invonly && ($x || is_site_admin())) {
+
+		if ($invonly && ($x || is_site_admin())) {
 			$code = autoname(8) . srand(1000,9999);
 			$nmessage = str_replace('$invite_code',$code,$message);
 
@@ -59,16 +61,17 @@ function invite_post(&$a) {
 				dbesc(datetime_convert())
 			);
 
-			if(! is_site_admin()) {
+			if (! is_site_admin()) {
 				$x --;
-				if($x >= 0)
+				if ($x >= 0) {
 					set_pconfig(local_user(),'system','invites_remaining',$x);
-				else
+				} else {
 					return;
+				}
 			}
-		}
-		else
+		} else {
 			$nmessage = $message;
+		}
 
 		$res = mail($recip, email_header_encode( t('Please join us on Friendica'),'UTF-8'), 
 			$nmessage, 
@@ -76,7 +79,7 @@ function invite_post(&$a) {
 			. 'Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8' . "\n"
 			. 'Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit' );
 
-		if($res) {
+		if ($res) {
 			$total ++;
 			$current_invites ++;
 			set_pconfig(local_user(),'system','sent_invites',$current_invites);
@@ -84,8 +87,7 @@ function invite_post(&$a) {
 				notice( t('Invitation limit exceeded. Please contact your site administrator.') . EOL);
 				return;
 			}
-		}
-		else {
+		} else {
 			notice( sprintf( t('%s : Message delivery failed.'), $recip) . EOL);
 		}
 
@@ -105,26 +107,24 @@ function invite_content(&$a) {
 	$tpl = get_markup_template('invite.tpl');
 	$invonly = false;
 
-	if(get_config('system','invitation_only')) {
+	if (get_config('system','invitation_only')) {
 		$invonly = true;
 		$x = get_pconfig(local_user(),'system','invites_remaining');
-		if((! $x) && (! is_site_admin())) {
+		if ((! $x) && (! is_site_admin())) {
 			notice( t('You have no more invitations available') . EOL);
 			return '';
 		}
 	}
 
 	$dirloc = get_config('system','directory');
-	if(strlen($dirloc)) {
+	if (strlen($dirloc)) {
 		if ($a->config['register_policy'] == REGISTER_CLOSED) {
 			$linktxt = sprintf( t('Visit %s for a list of public sites that you can join. Friendica members on other sites can all connect with each other, as well as with members of many other social networks.'), $dirloc . '/siteinfo');
-		}
-		elseif($a->config['register_policy'] != REGISTER_CLOSED) {
+		} elseif($a->config['register_policy'] != REGISTER_CLOSED) {
 			$linktxt = sprintf( t('To accept this invitation, please visit and register at %s or any other public Friendica website.'), App::get_baseurl())
 			. "\r\n" . "\r\n" . sprintf( t('Friendica sites all inter-connect to create a huge privacy-enhanced social web that is owned and controlled by its members. They can also connect with many traditional social networks. See %s for a list of alternate Friendica sites you can join.'),$dirloc . '/siteinfo');
 		}
-	}
-	else {
+	} else {
 		$o = t('Our apologies. This system is not currently configured to connect with other public sites or invite members.');
 		return $o;
 	}
diff --git a/mod/starred.php b/mod/starred.php
index beaa3b87d5..84baa82cea 100644
--- a/mod/starred.php
+++ b/mod/starred.php
@@ -43,8 +43,7 @@ function starred_init(&$a) {
 		$rand = '_=' . time();
 		if (strpos($return_path, '?')) {
 			$rand = "&$rand";
-		}
-		else {
+		} else {
 			$rand = "?$rand";
 		}