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- data hiding
The ability to restrict and control access to data members; also called data protection
- data member
A variable declared within a class but outside any method; also called a property or instance variable
- Data Source Name (DSN)
The specification of the driver and resources necessary to create a PHP Data Object
- deprecated
No longer recommended usage, obsolete; for example, "The is_a function is deprecated as of PHP 5." (The deprecated entity will eventually be extinct from the language.)
- design pattern
A general description of a solution to a design problem; somewhat akin to an abstract class or interface, but even less specific
- destructor
The opposite of a constructor, invoked automatically whenever an object goes out ...
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