diff --git a/course/format/renderer.php b/course/format/renderer.php
index d9515a6049d..7db331f2d41 100644
--- a/course/format/renderer.php
+++ b/course/format/renderer.php
@@ -585,7 +585,7 @@ abstract class format_section_renderer_base extends plugin_renderer_base {
         $section = 1;
         while ($section <= $course->numsections) {
             $thissection = $modinfo->get_section_info($section);
-            $showsection = $thissection->uservisible or !$course->hiddensections;
+            $showsection = ($thissection->uservisible or !$course->hiddensections);
             if (($showsection) && ($section != $displaysection) && ($url = course_get_url($course, $section))) {
                 $sectionmenu[$url->out(false)] = get_section_name($course, $section);
             }
diff --git a/filter/mediaplugin/filter.php b/filter/mediaplugin/filter.php
index 57e58d513dc..9c59b6dfd1a 100644
--- a/filter/mediaplugin/filter.php
+++ b/filter/mediaplugin/filter.php
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ class filter_mediaplugin extends moodle_text_filter {
         }
 
         // Check SWF permissions.
-        $this->trusted = !empty($options['noclean']) or !empty($CFG->allowobjectembed);
+        $this->trusted = (!empty($options['noclean']) or !empty($CFG->allowobjectembed));
 
         // Handle all links that contain any 'embeddable' marker text (it could
         // do all links, but the embeddable markers thing should make it faster