Is it possible to use Hugo template functions and variables in a PHP file?

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I’ve read Custom Output Formats a couple of times and I’m confused. Here’s what I’ve done so far:

I created mediaTypes and outputFormats in config.toml

[mediaTypes]
    [mediaTypes."text/x-php"]
        suffixes = ["php"]

[outputFormats]
    [outputFormats.phpFormat]
        baseName = "index"
        isPlainText = false
        mediaType = "text/x-php"

I created /content/contact/index.php file. For simplicity’s sake, it contains only phpinfo() nested in main block, but let’s pretend that there are actual contact form routines, plus some PHP includes: :slightly_smiling_face:

{{ define "main" }}
<?php
    phpinfo();
?>
{{ end }}

In /layouts/contact I created baseof.php:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    {{- partial "head.html" . -}}
    <body>
        {{- partial "header.html" . -}}
        <div id="content">
            {{- block "main" . }}{{- end }}
        </div>
        {{- partial "footer.html" . -}}
    </body>
</html>

And a simple index.php:

{{ define "main" }}
    {{ .Content }}
{{ end }}

The phpinfo() executes properly in /contact/, but Hugo’s magical incantations fail, so at the beginning and the end of the /contact/ page I’m greeted with {{ define "main" }} and {{ end }}. Neither the head, header nor footer are loaded.

To be honest, the existence of /layouts/contact/baseof.php and /layouts/contact/index.php doesn’t seem to affect /contact/index.php in any way. It executes fine with or without them.

What am I doing wrong?