PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Foswiki

General Features PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
2.1.11
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
$0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
family people, hackers
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
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
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None (use your web server instead)
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
Development/Support PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
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 Foswiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
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
22
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
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
Yes
Links PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki
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
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
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
External Link
http://foswiki.org/ autolink
[[http://foswiki.org/][label]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
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''
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
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>
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
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)
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
%IMAGE{"image.png"}%
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

no example known
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
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
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
----
Depending on plugins:
----
---
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