I am a ve­ry big pro­po­nent of sta­tic si­te ge­ne­ra­tor­s. I would not ha­ve bo­the­red wri­ting Niko­la othe­rwi­se. But the­re is alwa­ys that fee­ling that ma­y­be the­re is so­me li­ttle thing whi­ch is hard to im­ple­men­t, like a con­tact for­m.

And le­t's fa­ce it, the ea­siest way to sol­ve so­me of tho­se things is by sti­cking a few li­nes of PHP in your HT­M­L.

So, if you rea­lly want to, you can do it. I thi­nk Niko­la (gi­thub mas­te­r) is the first sta­tic si­te ge­ne­ra­tor that su­ppor­ts php co­de. He­re's ho­w:

1. Add php to your pa­ge_­com­pi­lers (be­cau­se I wi­ll ne­ver put it the­re by de­faul­t):

   post_compilers = {
       "rest": ('.txt', '.rst'),
       "markdown": ('.md', '.mdown', '.markdown'),
       "textile": ('.textile',),
       "txt2tags": ('.t2t',),
       "bbcode": ('.bb',),
       "wiki": ('.wiki',),
       "ipynb": ('.ipynb',),
       "html": ('.html', '.htm'),
       "php": ('.php'),
   }

2. Add php pos­ts or pa­ges to your pos­t_­pa­ges:

   post_pages = (
       ("posts/*.txt", "posts", "post.tmpl", True),
       ("posts/*.php", "posts", "post.tmpl", True),
       ("stories/*.txt", "stories", "story.tmpl", False),
       ("stories/*.php", "stories", "story.tmpl", False),
   )

3. Crea­te a php pos­t:

   nikola new_post posts/foo.php

4. Put php in the­re:

   <!--
   .. date: 2013/04/16 09:57:09
   .. title: php test
   .. slug: foo
   -->
   
   <?php
   Print "Hello, World!";
   ?>

Build the si­te as usua­l, and you should end up wi­th a pa­ge wi­th PHP ex­ten­sio­n, that has that PHP in the "con­ten­t" area, so it wi­ll fo­llow your si­te's the­me. Of cour­se you can't do things like add HTTP hea­ders and su­ch, but he­y, read the ti­tle.

Ye­s, ver­sion 5.4.4 of Niko­la, my sta­tic si­te/­blog ge­ne­ra­tor is just pu­blis­hed at the usual pla­ce, in­clu­ding the fo­llo­wing im­pro­ve­men­ts: