PhpWiki vs. Instiki

General Features PhpWiki Instiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.30.0
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
2019-03-01 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-03-04 (7 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
David Heinemeier Hansson, Jacques Distler, Matthias Tarasiewicz
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
Ruby's
Programming Language
PHP
Ruby on Rails
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
general, education
System Requirements PhpWiki Instiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X
Root Access
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Thin (included), or Apache/NGinx (via Passenger)
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Ruby 2.0-2.6
Datastorage PhpWiki Instiki
Text Files
Yes
No
MySQL
Yes
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
RCS
Yes
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Any Rails-compatible back-end datastore can be used.
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Instiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Unknown
Delayed Indexing
No
Unknown
Development/Support PhpWiki Instiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki Instiki
Preview
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features PhpWiki Instiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
No
Links PhpWiki Instiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki Instiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
Yes
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
None
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability PhpWiki Instiki
Section Editing
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki Instiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Output PhpWiki Instiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki Instiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Yes
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Extras PhpWiki Instiki
Calendar
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Instiki
Internal Link 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[Some Page]]
[[Some Page|anchor text]]
[[Some Page#anchor]]
[[Some Page#anchor|anchor text]]
External Link 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
[another site](http://example.com)
Headlines 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

#Level 1#
##Level 2##
###Level 3###
####Level 4####
#####Level 5#####
######Level 6######
Bold Format 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
_italic_, *italic*
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
underlined
{: style='text-decoration:underlined'}
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



`monospace`
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
<del>strikethrough</del>
strikethrough
{: style='text-decoration:line-through'}
Superscript Format 
<sup>above</sup>
 
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format 
<sub>below</sub>
 
<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

![alt text](http://ex.com/image.jpg),
[[image.jpg|alt text:pic]]
Aligning Text 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


p{: style='text-align:left'}
p{: style='text-align:right'}
p{: style='text-align:center'}
p{: style='text-align:justify'}
Text Indentation 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

p
{: style='margin-left:3em'}

> blockquote
Bulleted Lists 
* list
or
- list
 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# list
 
1. Item 1
1. Item 1.1
2. Item 2
Definition Lists 
Term:<def>
def
 
term
: definition
Horizontal Rule 
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