Is this { } php syntax?

Question

I looked to a php tutorial from 2010 and I found that where I suppose to see <?php bla bla ?> I see something like this:

<meta name="description" content="{metadescription}" /> 
<meta name="keywords" content="{metakeywords}" />

Is this an old php syntax. I assumed that metadescription is a variable and you have to do something like this:

<?php echo $metadescription ?>

Please someone give me an idea what is happening.

Looks like a template engine to me, either server-side or client-side (hopefully such tags are not handled client-side, but I've seen it done, even though it defeats the purpose of these tags). — Alexander O'Mara, Jan 22 '16 at 05:59
I don't believe this is a duplicate of [Curly braces in string in PHP](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2596837/curly-braces-in-string-in-php) as these strings do not look like PHP variables. — Alexander O'Mara, Jan 22 '16 at 06:03
I think that Alexander O'Mara is right, but I'm not sure, because I'm not so good at php. The book where I found this is PHP 5 e-commerce Development, but I didn't find anywhere in the book a mention about any template: Smarty or other ones. I tried the code that I downloaded and I get everything in those curly brackets on the page. — dragon, Jan 22 '16 at 06:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 22 '16 at 06:10

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This is smarty syntax. It is a php template engine used to separate the view. Please refer http://www.smarty.net/ for more info

answered Jan 22 '16 at 06:10

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