Understanding PHP templates

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I am confused of the concept of templates in PHP. What does it really mean?What is the concept of templates in php? template

can any one help me what does templates used for and what does it really means in PHP. — expkib, Aug 28 '15 at 17:46
What is confusing you about templates? There are a number of templating sytems in PHP like twig, blade, smarty, etc. They are generally used to separate PHP logic from the display — samlev, Aug 28 '15 at 17:47
try this: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/10/getting-started-with-php-templating/ — samlev, Aug 28 '15 at 17:48
or this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/436014/why-should-i-use-templating-system-in-php — thoughtrepo, Aug 28 '15 at 17:49
even this: http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/Introduction-to-PHP-templating.html — DirtyBit, Aug 28 '15 at 17:49

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 28 '15 at 17:50

A template is basically a visual representation of something (like data I.E), can be dynamic or not, the template should hold placeholders that will be replaced with values passed to the template. Usually a template is a skeleton that should serve only as the visual representation (styles, markup). The main purpose of templates is to separate the logic from the visualization.

In MVC, the templates would be the View Layer.

Understanding PHP templates

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