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name/value pair

The format for a query string passed to a web page; any query string is composed of one or more name/value pairs. Access is provided by the global arrays $_POST or $_GET, with the name functioning as the array key.

overloaded

A characteristic of a method; describes the ability to behave differently when supplied with different parameters. In PHP, this term is usually applied to the __call, __set, and __get methods, in the sense that one method may handle a number of different methods or properties. (Because PHP is a weakly-typed language, you cannot have an overloaded method as understood in some other OO languages—namely, one method name but different method signatures.)

override

The act of redefining the method of a parent class in a child class