Re-usable user interface parts

Hello everyone,

The last few years I did a lot of web programming, with ASP, Perl and
ASP.NET. After being laid off due to a reorganization, I started looking
for a new job and today I had a job interview. The company uses PHP for
their web applications and they also told that they put pieces of user
interface HTML and code in classes that they can re-use. For instance a
grid with columns, rows, ability to sort ascending and descending,
pagination, etc. was a re-usable component there. More or less the same
idea as custom controls and user controls in ASP.NET.

Now I'm wondering whether there are PHP frameworks that make this kind of
re-use of user interface fragments ( HTML + client side code + server side
code ) easy. The nice thing about ASP.NET was that you could also put tags,
that represented such "custom" or "user" control, inside the HTML, so you
didn't have to instantiate the control from the code and you had the layout
in the .aspx and the code in a separate file.

Do you have any suggestions for frameworks and classes that can be used with
PHP to more or less simulate what I used to have with ASP.NET ?

Best regards,

Eric Veltman