What is .tpl files? php, web design

Question

A man wants me to redesign a site run in PHP (VideoCMS). But when I asked him to send me the source he has given me *.tpl files instead of *.php. There is some code inside t

Answer 1

.tpl shows there is a smarty ! smarty is a template language to split out php codes from html codes. Which gives us to ability to do design stuffs on a page which is not included php codes.