fix #1374 -- remove metadata comments in PHP files

Signed-off-by: Chris “Kwpolska” Warrick <kwpolska@gmail.com>

CHANGES.txt

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ Features
 Bugfixes
 --------
 
+* PHP compiler now removes metadata comments the usual way (Issue #1374)
 * PHP compiler’s permalinks were .html instead of .php (Issue #1373)
 * Fixed importing WordPress blogs outside of / (Issue #1368)
 * Fixed importing WordPress blogs without slugs (Issue #1364)

nikola/plugins/compile/php.py

@@ -29,21 +29,30 @@
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 import os
-import shutil
 import codecs
+import re
 
 from nikola.plugin_categories import PageCompiler
 from nikola.utils import makedirs, write_metadata
 
 
+_META_SEPARATOR = '(' + os.linesep * 2 + '|' + ('\n' * 2) + '|' + ("\r\n" * 2) + ')'
+
+
 class CompilePhp(PageCompiler):
     """Compile PHP into PHP."""
 
     name = "php"
 
     def compile_html(self, source, dest, is_two_file=True):
         makedirs(os.path.dirname(dest))
-        shutil.copyfile(source, dest)
+        with codecs.open(dest, "w+", "utf8") as out_file:
+            with codecs.open(source, "r", "utf8") as in_file:
+                data = in_file.read()
+            if not is_two_file:
+                data = re.split(_META_SEPARATOR, data, maxsplit=1)[-1]
+            out_file.write(data)
+        return True
 
     def create_post(self, path, **kw):
         content = kw.pop('content', None)