saithis

May I suggest you take a look at https://getcomposer.org/, that way you won't ever need your application/third_party folder. composer is a dependency manager for PHP and does its job really really well. I've worked on several projects with it and never regretted it.

Personally, I think the indent is enough to visually separate the block. And Allman style means more scrolling and less code fitting on the screen, which is bad.

In germany it's only forbidden to save the ip, if you also save data that allows you to look up the identity of the user for the ip. But if the user allows it, then even that is not forbidden. Almost all forums and websites with a login save the ip and account combination and none of the sites got in any trouble. The same goes for sites that log the ip without any user information.