PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Hatta

General Features PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.6.0
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (25 days ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL v2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
All
System Requirements PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
Mercurial
Datastorage PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
n/a
Host Blocking
No
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Special Features PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Optional
No
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
No
Links PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
None
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
No
Usability PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
No
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
No
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki PmWiki Hatta
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italic//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
n/a
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
n/a
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
n/a
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{image}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
n/a
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
n/a
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* list
** sublist
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
n/a
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
n/a
Horizontal Rule
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