PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. DokuWiki

General Features PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
2025-05-14b "Librarian"
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2025-09-09 (7 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-25 (1 month ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
family people, hackers
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
Datastorage PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
None
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
No
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Optional
Development/Support PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Links PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Yes
Usability PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Oddmuse DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
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
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/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
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
Plugin
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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