What are tpl files PHP web design

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Someone 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 them   include file  header tpl  p  quot article quot     lt br   gt   lt table width  quot 886 quot  border  quot 0 quot  cellspacing  quot 0 quot  cellpadding  quot 0 quot  gt     lt tr gt       lt td width  quot 150 quot  valign  quot top quot  gt       lt div id  quot reg box quot  gt       lt h3 class  quot captions quot  gt   lang articles  lt  h3 gt           lt div id  quot list cats quot  gt           lt ul gt                article categories           lt  ul gt           lt  div gt       lt  div gt       lt br   gt       lt div id  quot reg box quot  gt       lt h3 class  quot captions quot  gt   lang members  lt  h3 gt       if  logged in     1        include file  loggedin body tpl        else       include file  login body tpl         if   or  include file  header tpl  p  quot index quot     php    SESSION  isFair      quot Yes quot     php   What s the interpreter of the code  How can I redesign this site

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Those look like Smarty templates  There should be some additional PHP scripts which actually instantiate the Smarty engine and give it the data it can use for the replaceable elements

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Number 3 hit on Google for  tpl file   even though it s one of those annoying  Fix TPL errors now    Scan TPL files with our virus scanner   sell-you-everything-under-the-sun-with-flashy-ugly-ads-when-all-you-wanted-was-the-file-description sites  is      Used by PHP web development and PHP web applications as a template file  Mostly used by Smarty template engine  Template is a common text file  like  html file  and contains user defined variables that are replaced by user defined output content when PHP web application parsing a template file

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You have to learn Smarty syntax  That s a template system

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Other possibilities for  tpl  HTML  SimpleTemplate  example    Hello  name     and Template Toolkit  example   Hello    world

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Templates  I think that is Smarty syntax

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tpl shows there is a smarty  Smarty is a template language to split out PHP code from HTML code  Which gives us to the ability to do design stuff on a page which has not included PHP code

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tpl is the extension for Smarty files  It means  quot template quot   Tip  if you are using NetBeans and you want a correct syntax highlighting for those files   Go to menu Options   Tools Under Miscellaneous  select the Files tab Click new file extension  enter tpl  In Associated File Type  MIME   select HTML Files  text html  Click OK

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That looks like Smarty to me  Smarty is a template parser written in PHP   You can read up on how to use Smarty in the documentation   If you can t get access to the CMS s source  To view the templates in your browser  just look at what variables Smarty is using and create a PHP file that populates the used variables with dummy data   If I remember correctly  once Smarty is set up  you can use    smarty- gt assign  nameofvar    some data      to set the variables

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In this specific case it is Smarty  but it could also be Jinja2 templates  They usually also have a  tpl extension

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The files are using some sort of template engine in which curly braces indicate variables being generated by that templating engine  the files creating such variables must be present elsewhere with the more or less same name as the tpl file name  Here are some of templates engine mostly used   Smarty  Savant  Tinybutstrong  etc  With smarty being widely used

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