Drupal Wiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Version
8.37
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2025-06-05 (1 year ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2025-06-12 (11 months ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
https://kontextwork.de
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
No
Yes
License
Commercial
GPL
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
Different licences
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise
Any
Hosting Features Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
No
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
System Requirements Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Unix, Windows, OS X
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, nginx
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Text Files
No
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
RCS
No
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
No
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos-SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
No
Yes
Blacklist
No
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
Development/Support Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Special Features Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
Interface Languages
2
German, English
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Links Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
No
Yes
Freelinks
Plugin
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
Scripting
Widgets
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Usability Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
Output Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
No
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
No
Yes
Raw Export
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
Office Export
No
Unknown
Media and Files Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Yes
No
SVG Editing
Yes
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Extras Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Optional
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Chat
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples Drupal Wiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor with search in a dialog)
alternatively:
[[#123]]
[[#123][label]] 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
(Integrated in WYSIWYG-Editor)
alternatively:
[[http://drupal-wiki.com]]
[[http://drupal-wiki.com][label]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
(Integrated into the WYSIWYG-Editor)
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<sub>below</sub>
Images
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
[ http://foo.org/1.jpg size=30%] 
external image
[Upload:view.jpg align=right size=50x40] 
view uploaded image
[Upload:view.jpg | http://server/external-linkjpg ] 
view and link to another image
Aligning Text
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
# list
Definition Lists
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
(Integrated into the  WYSIWYG-Editor)
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