PhpWiki vs. BrainKeeper vs. PukiWiki

General Features PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
N/A
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
N/A
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
BrainKeeper, Inc.
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
Yes
License
GPL
N/A
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
0
Development status
Mature
N/A
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
One theme, one PukiWiki
Hosting Features PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
Unlimited
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
None
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
No Restrictions
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
Yes
N/A
Own Domain
N/A
Yes
N/A
Ads allowed
N/A
No
N/A
System Requirements PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
OS independent
Root Access
No
N/A
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
N/A
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
N/A
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
N/A
Yes
MySQL
Yes
N/A
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
No
Oracle
Yes
N/A
No
SQLite
Yes
N/A
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
N/A
No
RCS
Yes
N/A
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
N/A
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
N/A
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
No
Unknown
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
No
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Unknown
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
Yes
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
No
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
No
Links PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
No
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
No
Syntax Features PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
Textile Support
No
Unknown
No
BBCode Support
No
Unknown
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Yes
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Unknown
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
Yes
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Yes
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
No
Contents
No
Extras PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki BrainKeeper PukiWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
''bold''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
'''italic'''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


N/A
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
N/A
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
N/A
Images
[ 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
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule
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