A Technical Look at Cookie Compliance In modern web development, data collection drives critical functions like analytics, personalization, and ad targeting. But any handling of personal data—especially via cookies—must comply with strict privacy laws. Regulations such as the GDPR and CCPA mandate explicit user consent before loading non-essential cookies or tracking scripts. For developers, this…
Category: Web Security
2024 Insights: Technology & Marketing Trends to Watch in 2025
As we wrap up another year, our team at Hall took some time to reflect on the most impactful trends, tools, and shifts in web development and marketing. From AI advancements to evolving user behaviors, here are the highlights of our discussions and predictions for the future. The Most Game-Changing Technology or Trend in 2024…
Best Practices for Data Serialization in PHP
In the world of PHP programming, the functions serialize() and unserialize() have long been relied upon for converting complex data structures into strings. They are great at performing the function they were designed to do: convert PHP objects into a string that can be stored in a database or file. These strings can then be…
Preventing Symfony Process From Passing Laravel Environment Variables
Recently when working on an internal tool using Laravel, we encountered an issue where calling artisan commands in another application was using the wrong environment variables. After debugging, we determined that this was default behavior of the Symfony process class. The Symfony process class for PHP is able to call system processes from within your…