Creating php pages in wordpress and assigning them to wordpress pages

Question

/I have few pages in my wordpress site which should contain some php code. For example news page.

In my front-page.php I have a while which loops trough all posts and prints few news.

In my news site I want to do the same.

I have already tried using

<?php /* Template Name: news */ ?>

But this is only the template, so only my html works here, php while did not output any data.

What is the best approach to achieve this (as simple as possible) ?

EDIT:

In simple words, how to create a static php wordpress page.

Thank you!

Answer 1

MahdiY just explain that you can use PHP in your template like that

<?php
/*
Template Name: news
*/

get_header();
?>

    <div id="primary" class="content-area">
        <div id="content" class="site-content" role="main">

            <?php
                echo "This is PHP";
            ?>

        </div><!-- #content -->
    </div><!-- #primary -->

<?php get_footer(); ?>