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

Other possibilities for .tpl: HTML::SimpleTemplate, example:

Hello $name

, and Template Toolkit, example:

Hello [% world %]!