PhpWiki vs. Oddmuse vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta

General Features PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.13
2.1.11
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
2018-09-04 (8 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Alex Schroeder
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Perl
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
free
$0
0
Development status
Mature
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 Hatta
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Mercurial
Datastorage PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
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
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Plugin
No
Development/Support PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
89 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Optional
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
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Yes
No
Links PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Perl
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Statistics PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
No
Output PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Optional
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Oddmuse Foswiki Hatta
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]]
[[link]]
[[link|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]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
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
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
<u>underline</u>
n/a
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>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
<sub>subscript</sub>
n/a
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"}%
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
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
n/a
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>
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* one
** two
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# list
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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