What is a .ctp file used for in CakePHP?

I'm starting to use CakePHP, and I'm in the process of reading the manual. About halfway down the page, there's this comment:

// Render the element in /views/elements/ajaxreturn.ctp

So a very simple question: what's the .ctp extension refer to? What's the general use case?

Thanks.

Solution 1:

CakePHP 1.2 introduced .ctp as its file extension for views.

CakePHP view files are written in plain PHP and have a default extension of .ctp (CakePHP Template). These files contain all the presentational logic needed to get the data it received from the controller in a format that is ready for the audience you’re serving to.

http://book.cakephp.org/2.0/en/views.html#view-templates

Solution 2:

Template file used by CakePHP, a development framework for PHP Web applications; contains the PHP "view" code within the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software architecture design pattern; stores a template for how information is displayed in the Web application.

See more in http://www.fileinfo.com/extension/ctp