M
- magic method
A method that begins with a double underscore and is usually invoked indirectly. __sleep and __wakeup are magic methods in PHP 4. A number of magic methods are new to PHP 5, most importantly the __construct and __clone methods.
- metadata
Data that describes other data; for example, information about the structure of a database
- method
A function defined within the scope of a class
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME)
The standard Internet email format, but more broadly, a content type specification such as "image/jpeg"
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