diff --git a/lib/SimpleSAML/Logger.php b/lib/SimpleSAML/Logger.php
index b7d84e9168c46be306826ed659d79231640c9be5..ea20881c0f170db9d7510adc1a971a2910dd8e2a 100644
--- a/lib/SimpleSAML/Logger.php
+++ b/lib/SimpleSAML/Logger.php
@@ -1,19 +1,35 @@
 <?php
 
+
 /**
  * The main logger class for SimpleSAMLphp.
  *
  * @author Lasse Birnbaum Jensen, SDU.
  * @author Andreas Ă…kre Solberg, UNINETT AS. <andreas.solberg@uninett.no>
- * @package simpleSAMLphp
+ * @package SimpleSAMLphp
  * @version $ID$
  */
-
 class SimpleSAML_Logger
 {
-    private static $loggingHandler = NULL;
-    private static $logLevel = NULL;
-    private static $captureLog = FALSE;
+
+    /**
+     * @var SimpleSAML_Logger_LoggingHandler|false|null
+     */
+    private static $loggingHandler = null;
+
+    /**
+     * @var integer|null
+     */
+    private static $logLevel = null;
+
+    /**
+     * @var boolean
+     */
+    private static $captureLog = false;
+
+    /**
+     * @var array
+     */
     private static $capturedLog = array();
 
     /**
@@ -34,7 +50,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
      * This variable holds the track ID we have retrieved from the session class. It can also be NULL, in which case
      * we haven't fetched the track ID yet, or TRACKID_FETCHING, which means that we are fetching the track ID now.
      */
-    private static $trackid = NULL;
+    private static $trackid = null;
 
     /**
      * This variable holds the format used to log any message. Its use varies depending on the log handler used (for
@@ -129,6 +145,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
         self::log(self::WARNING, $string);
     }
 
+
     /**
      * We reserve the notice level for statistics, so do not use this level for other kind of log messages.
      *
@@ -170,7 +187,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
      */
     public static function stats($string)
     {
-        self::log(self::NOTICE, $string, TRUE);
+        self::log(self::NOTICE, $string, true);
     }
 
 
@@ -179,7 +196,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
      *
      * @var boolean $val Whether to capture logs or not. Defaults to TRUE.
      */
-    public static function setCaptureLog($val = TRUE)
+    public static function setCaptureLog($val = true)
     {
         self::$captureLog = $val;
     }
@@ -197,7 +214,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
     private static function createLoggingHandler()
     {
         // set to FALSE to indicate that it is being initialized
-        self::$loggingHandler = FALSE;
+        self::$loggingHandler = false;
 
         // get the configuration
         $config = SimpleSAML_Configuration::getInstance();
@@ -219,7 +236,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
             $sh = new SimpleSAML_Logger_LoggingHandlerErrorLog();
         } else {
             throw new Exception(
-                'Invalid value for the [logging.handler] configuration option. Unknown handler: ' . $handler
+                'Invalid value for the [logging.handler] configuration option. Unknown handler: '.$handler
             );
         }
 
@@ -231,14 +248,14 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
     }
 
 
-    private static function log($level, $string, $statsLog = FALSE)
+    private static function log($level, $string, $statsLog = false)
     {
         if (php_sapi_name() === 'cli' || defined('STDIN')) {
             // we are being executed from the CLI, nowhere to log
             return;
         }
 
-        if (self::$loggingHandler === NULL) {
+        if (self::$loggingHandler === null) {
             /* Initialize logging. */
             self::createLoggingHandler();
 
@@ -249,7 +266,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
                     self::log($msg['level'], $msg['string'], $msg['statsLog']);
                 }
             }
-        } elseif (self::$loggingHandler === FALSE) {
+        } elseif (self::$loggingHandler === false) {
             // some error occurred while initializing logging
             if (empty(self::$earlyLog)) {
                 // this is the first message
@@ -262,7 +279,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
         }
 
         if (self::$captureLog) {
-            $ts = microtime(TRUE);
+            $ts = microtime(true);
             $msecs = (int) (($ts - (int) $ts) * 1000);
             $ts = GMdate('H:i:s', $ts).sprintf('.%03d', $msecs).'Z';
             self::$capturedLog[] = $ts.' '.$string;
@@ -301,7 +318,7 @@ class SimpleSAML_Logger
             return 'NA';
         }
 
-        if (self::$trackid === NULL) {
+        if (self::$trackid === null) {
             // no track ID yet, fetch it from the session class
 
             // mark it as currently being fetched