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Templates is a generic term for the separation of data and presentation, as you advance in the development of PHP driven sites/portal you will find that maintenance of both your backend (PHP) and frontend (markup) becomes quite difficult if you have a signifiicant amount of code interspersed in your presentation (markup).
There are quite a few ready made templating systems on the net, and on the PHPDN Member sites: