It sounds like you want Jekyll, but in PHP. I actually starting building just that, it was called LiME (https://github.com/mattbearman/lime https://github.com/

It sounds like you want Jekyll, but in PHP. I actually starting building just that, it was called LiME (https://github.com/mattbearman/lime https://github.com/mattbearman/lime) - although I'd never actually used Jekyll at the time, I just knew the theory behind it. Not long after I pushed v0.2 I switched to Ruby/Rails, stopped working in PHP, and LiME has sat stagnant ever since. Still, it worked fine, although didn't have all the features of Jekyll, I'd love for someone to take it over.