PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. Oddmuse

General Features PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.6.0
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (24 days ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Anything supported by Perl
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.
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
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.
None (use your web server instead)
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
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
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Statistics PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
No
Media and Files PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki PmWiki Oddmuse
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]]
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
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
via bbCode plugin:
[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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
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
no example known
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* one
** two
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
Horizontal Rule
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Depending on plugins:
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