Comment by aruggirello

> is line 89 of search.php valid?? "$user 0 && ..." ? aren't we missing an comparison operator?

Good job. And perhaps that's the culprit. Everybody assumed it was a plain syntax error, but I don't think it's possible. Rather, it seems me that:

    if ($user <something else ... ) {
        was written here
        but we'll never know because
        the browser mistook it for an HTML tag,
        and the user probably copied page contents
        instead of saving it.
    };

    if (user_was_working_at_facebook_in_2007())
        possibly_confirm('?');

    /* lots of missing code may follow... until */

    if (who knows what > 0 && ...