PhpWiki vs. Hatta vs. UseMod vs. TWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.6.6
1.2.2
TWiki-6.1.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Radomir Dopieralski
Clifford Adams
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL v2
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Perl
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
N/A
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
family people, hackers
System Requirements PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Anything supported by Perl
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Mercurial
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Writable data directory
Datastorage PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Optional
No
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
No
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
n/a
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
88 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
0
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
No
No
Threaded
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Optional
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Links PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
None
Some
All
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
None
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
No
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
Yes
No
Output PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
No
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
No
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Media and Files PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Forums
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Hatta UseMod TWiki Oddmuse
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
optional, default on:
[[page name]]

optional, default off:
PageName
[PageName] → [1]
[[[page name]]] → [1]
[PageName text] → text
[[page name|text]] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](page) → text
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

optional, default on:
[http://example.com/ text] → text

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
'''bold'''
*bold*
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
n/a
<u>underline</u>
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


{{{verbatim}}}
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
n/a
N/A
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
n/a
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
n/a
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
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
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
http://url.com/pic.gif
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

n/a
N/A
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
no example known
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
n/a
: indented
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* list
** sublist
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# list
n/a
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
n/a
;Term:Definition
$ Term: Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
---
Depending on plugins:
----
remove PhpWiki remove Hatta remove UseMod remove TWiki remove Oddmuse