PhpWiki vs. Pepperminty Wiki vs. Foswiki vs. Hatta

General Features PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
v0.24 (dev: v0.25-dev)
2.1.11
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
2023-02-18 (3 years ago)
2026-03-15 (5 months ago)
2015-08-29 (11 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2023-02-19 (3 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
Starbeamrainbowlabs
Foswiki Community
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
MPL-2.0
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
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
Small-Medium sized Wikis and Communities
Enterprise, Corporate, Business, Intranets, Personal use, Community building, Educational, Intranet, Extranet
System Requirements PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux / Windows
Linux, Windows, OS-X and others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Anything PHP enabled
Apache, Lighttpd, Nginx, or any other supporting (F)CGI
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
php-mbstring, php-imagick (for previews), php-fileinfo (for checking file uploads), php-intl (for unicode text normalization in the search index), `php-sqlite3` (for search index storage), and php-zip (for exporting)
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Mercurial
Datastorage PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki 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)
n/a
caching of content into database using plugins
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
None yet
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
n/a
Host Blocking
No
No
Plugin
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
Plugin
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Plugin
No
Development/Support PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
206 ⭐
118 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
No
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
Optional
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
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
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
No
Plugin
Optional
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
Yes
No
Links PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Syntax Features PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Not yet, though template includes with parameters is a thing. Pull Requests welcome :-)
JavaScript; Topic Markup Language
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Usability PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
No
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
No
Statistics PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
Yes
No
Output PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Keywords
Contents
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Calendar
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
No
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Pepperminty Wiki Foswiki Hatta
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[Internal Link]]s
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
![See the full syntax help here](https://starbeamrainbowlabs.com/labs/peppermint/build/index.php?action=help#20-parser-default)
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
# Headline
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold text**
*bold*
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italics_
_italic_
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
n/a
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


`code text`
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
~~strikethough text~~
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
sometext^superscript^
<sup>superscript</sup>
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
sometext~subscript~
<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
![Alt text](http://example.com/path/to/image.png)
%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>

Col1 | Col2 | Col3
-------|--------|-------
this  | is      | a
mark|down|table
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
n/a
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
> Blockquote
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item A
* Item B
* Item C
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# list
1. A
2. B
3. C
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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-------
---
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