diff --git a/reference/sockets/functions/socket-select.xml b/reference/sockets/functions/socket-select.xml
index 7c67dfddb7..aeaf082982 100644
--- a/reference/sockets/functions/socket-select.xml
+++ b/reference/sockets/functions/socket-select.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.7 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.8 $ -->
 <!-- splitted from ./en/functions/sockets.xml, last change in rev 1.27 -->
   <refentry id="function.socket-select">
    <refnamediv>
@@ -59,9 +59,11 @@
 /* Prepare the read array */
 $read = array($socket1, $socket2);
 
-if (false === ($num_changed_sockets = socket_select($read, $write = NULL, $except = NULL, 0))) {
+$num_changed_sockets = socket_select($read, $write = NULL, $except = NULL, 0);
+
+if ($num_changed_sockets === false) {
     /* Error handling */
-else if ($num_changed_sockets > 0) {
+} else if ($num_changed_sockets > 0) {
     /* At least at one of the sockets something interesting happened */
 }
 ]]>
@@ -106,7 +108,8 @@ socket_select($r, $w, $e = NULL, 0);
      <programlisting role="php">
 <![CDATA[
 if (false === socket_select($r, $w, $e = NULL, 0)) {
-    echo "socket_select() failed, reason: " . socket_strerror(socket_last_error()) . "\n";
+    echo "socket_select() failed, reason: " .
+        socket_strerror(socket_last_error()) . "\n";
 }
 ]]>
      </programlisting>