If you’ve been following data privacy news, you know that California’s CCPA and CPRA set the standard for how businesses collect and store customer information. But if you think California is the only state watching your website, it’s time to look closely at your analytics and marketing code. A new wave of website tracking litigation—driven…
Category: Web Security
Why User Consent is Key to Modern Web Development
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…
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…