diff --git a/src/Factory/Api/Friendica/Photo.php b/src/Factory/Api/Friendica/Photo.php
index 85470c8806..9c0a48dea7 100644
--- a/src/Factory/Api/Friendica/Photo.php
+++ b/src/Factory/Api/Friendica/Photo.php
@@ -152,4 +152,4 @@ class Photo extends BaseFactory
 
 		return $data;
 	}
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}
diff --git a/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Group/Create.php b/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Group/Create.php
index c57a20143a..2742bae8c6 100644
--- a/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Group/Create.php
+++ b/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Group/Create.php
@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ class Create extends BaseApi
 		$uid = BaseApi::getCurrentUserID();
 
 		// params
-		$name = $request['name'] ?? '';
-		$json = json_decode($request['json'], true);
+		$name  = $request['name'] ?? '';
+		$json  = json_decode($request['json'], true);
 		$users = $json['user'];
 
 		// error if no name specified
@@ -66,14 +66,14 @@ class Create extends BaseApi
 
 		// add members
 		$erroraddinguser = false;
-		$errorusers = [];
+		$errorusers      = [];
 		foreach ($users as $user) {
 			$cid = $user['cid'];
 			if (DBA::exists('contact', ['id' => $cid, 'uid' => $uid])) {
 				Group::addMember($gid, $cid);
 			} else {
 				$erroraddinguser = true;
-				$errorusers[] = $cid;
+				$errorusers[]    = $cid;
 			}
 		}
 
diff --git a/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Group/Show.php b/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Group/Show.php
index b2ce4ea065..f735e7c116 100644
--- a/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Group/Show.php
+++ b/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Group/Show.php
@@ -57,20 +57,18 @@ class Show extends BaseApi
 		$grps = [];
 		foreach ($groups as $rr) {
 			$members = Contact\Group::getById($rr['id']);
-			$users = [];
+			$users   = [];
 
 			if ($type == 'xml') {
 				$user_element = 'users';
-				$k = 0;
+				$k            = 0;
 				foreach ($members as $member) {
-					$user = DI::twitterUser()->createFromContactId($member['contact-id'], $uid, true)->toArray();
-					$users[$k++.':user'] = $user;
+					$users[$k++.':user'] = DI::twitterUser()->createFromContactId($member['contact-id'], $uid, true)->toArray();
 				}
 			} else {
 				$user_element = 'user';
 				foreach ($members as $member) {
-					$user = DI::twitterUser()->createFromContactId($member['contact-id'], $uid, true)->toArray();
-					$users[] = $user;
+					$users[] = DI::twitterUser()->createFromContactId($member['contact-id'], $uid, true)->toArray();
 				}
 			}
 			$grps[] = ['name' => $rr['name'], 'gid' => $rr['id'], $user_element => $users];
diff --git a/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Photo.php b/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Photo.php
index 6e5b02c4fd..d0ea25b309 100644
--- a/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Photo.php
+++ b/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Photo.php
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ class Photo extends BaseApi
 			throw new HTTPException\BadRequestException('No photo id.');
 		}
 
-		$scale = (!empty($request['scale']) ? intval($request['scale']) : false);
+		$scale    = (!empty($request['scale']) ? intval($request['scale']) : false);
 		$photo_id = $request['photo_id'];
 
 		// prepare json/xml output with data from database for the requested photo
diff --git a/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Photo/Update.php b/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Photo/Update.php
index 24c07be8e6..a7ac91460e 100644
--- a/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Photo/Update.php
+++ b/src/Module/Api/Friendica/Photo/Update.php
@@ -118,14 +118,14 @@ class Update extends BaseApi
 		$result = false;
 		if (count($updated_fields) > 0) {
 			$nothingtodo = false;
-			$result = Photo::update($updated_fields, ['uid' => $uid, 'resource-id' => $photo_id, 'album' => $album]);
+			$result      = Photo::update($updated_fields, ['uid' => $uid, 'resource-id' => $photo_id, 'album' => $album]);
 		} else {
 			$nothingtodo = true;
 		}
 
 		if (!empty($_FILES['media'])) {
 			$nothingtodo = false;
-			$photo = Photo::upload($uid, $_FILES['media'], $album, $allow_cid, $allow_gid, $deny_cid, $deny_gid, $desc, $photo_id);
+			$photo       = Photo::upload($uid, $_FILES['media'], $album, $allow_cid, $allow_gid, $deny_cid, $deny_gid, $desc, $photo_id);
 			if (!empty($photo)) {
 				$data = ['photo' => $this->friendicaPhoto->createFromId($photo['resource_id'], null, $uid, $type)];
 				$this->response->exit('photo_update', $data, $this->parameters['extension'] ?? null);
diff --git a/src/Module/Api/Twitter/Account/UpdateProfileImage.php b/src/Module/Api/Twitter/Account/UpdateProfileImage.php
index 422ed4416c..909c4c29e7 100644
--- a/src/Module/Api/Twitter/Account/UpdateProfileImage.php
+++ b/src/Module/Api/Twitter/Account/UpdateProfileImage.php
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ class UpdateProfileImage extends BaseApi
 		}
 	
 		// output for client
-		$skip_status = $request['skip_status'] ?? false;
+		$skip_status = filter_var($request['skip_status'] ?? false, FILTER_VALIDATE_BOOLEAN);
 	
 		$user_info = DI::twitterUser()->createFromUserId($uid, $skip_status)->toArray();
 	
diff --git a/tests/legacy/ApiTest.php b/tests/legacy/ApiTest.php
index 597f432ff7..904ae92f6c 100644
--- a/tests/legacy/ApiTest.php
+++ b/tests/legacy/ApiTest.php
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ use Friendica\Util\Arrays;
 use Friendica\Util\DateTimeFormat;
 use Monolog\Handler\TestHandler;
 
-require_once __DIR__ . '/../../include/api.php';
-
 /**
  * Tests for the API functions.
  *