| General Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
phpwiki-1.3.14
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2.67
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N/A
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2.6.0
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| Last Release Date |
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
|
2008-10-17 (17 years ago)
|
N/A
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2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
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| Last Update here |
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
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2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
|
2008-01-12 (18 years ago)
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2026-05-16 (28 days ago)
|
| Author |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
|
BrainKeeper, Inc.
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
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| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
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N/A
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Yes
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| License |
GPL
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GPL
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N/A
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GPL2+
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| Programming Language |
PHP
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Perl
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N/A
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PHP
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| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files, RCS
|
N/A
|
Files
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| License Cost/ Fee |
0
|
0
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from $35 for 9 logins, scaled pricing from there
|
0
|
| Development status |
Mature
|
Mature
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N/A
|
Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Any
|
Anyone
|
Enterprise, Corporations, and Business Teams
|
All
|
| Hosting Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Storage Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Unlimited
|
N/A
|
| Bandwidth Quota |
N/A
|
N/A
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Unlimited
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N/A
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| Other Limits |
N/A
|
N/A
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None
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N/A
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| Topic Restrictions |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No Restrictions
|
N/A
|
| Corporate Branding |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Own Domain |
N/A
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
N/A
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| Ads allowed |
N/A
|
N/A
|
No
|
N/A
|
| System Requirements | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Any
|
N/A
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
| Root Access |
No
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Webserver |
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
|
Any, or none
|
N/A
|
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
|
| Other Requirements |
various opt. helpers
|
N/A
|
none
|
|
| Datastorage | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Yes
|
No
|
N/A
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Plugin
|
| Other |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
N/A
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
|
| Security/Anti-Spam | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Authentication Backends |
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
|
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
|
N/A
|
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Development/Support | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
No
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N/A
|
Yes
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| Code Repository |
N/A
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| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
|
|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
N/A
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| Common Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Interface Languages |
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional |
1
English |
1
English |
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
| Email notification |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Flat
|
Discussion Pages
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
Conflict Resolution
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
N/A
|
Yes
|
| Structured Data |
Patch
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Links | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Syntax Features | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Optional
|
Some
|
Plugin
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Scripting |
plugins, templates, PHP
|
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Usability | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Patch
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Statistics | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Optional
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Optional
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Output | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| XML export |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Media and Files | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
No
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
Filenames only
|
| Extras | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | PhpWiki | ikiwiki | BrainKeeper | PmWiki |
| Internal Link |
WikiWord or [somelink] [ desc | pagename ] |
[[internal]] |
|
[[page name]] [[page name | link text]] [[link text -> page name]] [[#anchor]] [[#anchor|link to anchor]] [[page name #anchor]] |
| External Link |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
[link text](http://example.org) |
|
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
| Headlines |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
Two syntaxes: # heading 1 ## heading 2 ### heading 3 heading 1 ========= heading 2 --------- |
|
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
| Bold Format |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
**bold** __bold__ |
|
'''bold''' |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
*emphasized* _emphasized_ |
|
''italic'' |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
via HTML: <u>underlined</u> |
|
{+underlined+} |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
`inline monospace` indented block of monospaced text tab-indented block |
|
@@monospace@@ |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
via HTML: <del>deleted</del> |
|
{-strikethrough-} |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>above</sup> |
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup> |
|
'^superscript^' |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>below</sub> |
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub> |
|
'_subscript_' |
| 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 |
  |
|
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
| Aligning Text |
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?> or <div align="right"> right </div> |
|
|
%center% centered text %right% right aligned %lfloat% left floating text %rfloat% right floating text %rframe% right floating frame %lframe% left floating frame |
| Text Indentation |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
|
|
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
| Bulleted Lists |
* list or - list |
* item 1 * item 2 * item 2.1 * item 2.2 |
|
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# list |
1. item 1 2. item 2 1. item 1.1 42. the value doesn't matter 1. any value works |
|
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
| Definition Lists |
Term:<def> def |
via HTML: <dl> <dt>term</dt> <dd>definition</dd> </dl> |
|
: term : definition |
| Horizontal Rule |
---- |
--- *** ___ ------------------ Any number > 3 - - - - - - - - - - spaces don't matter |
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