| General Features | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Version |
phpwiki-1.3.14
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2.5.9
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TWiki-6.1.0
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1.4.2
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| Last Release Date |
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
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2026-04-05 (1 day ago)
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2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
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2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
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| Last Update here |
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
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2026-04-05 (1 day ago)
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2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
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2020-04-20 (5 years ago)
|
| Author |
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
|
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
|
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
|
Wikka Development Team
|
| URL | ||||
| Free and Open Source |
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| License |
GPL
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GPL2+
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GPL
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GPL
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| Programming Language |
PHP
|
PHP
|
Perl, JavaScript
|
PHP
|
| Data Storage |
Database, Files, RCS
|
Files
|
Files, RCS
|
Database
|
| License Cost/ Fee |
0
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0
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N/A
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0
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| Development status |
Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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Mature
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| Intended Audience |
Any
|
All
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Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
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Individual users (PIM/website backend), development teams (software documentation/knowledge base), organizations and companies (intranet/public website backend)
|
| System Requirements | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Operating System |
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
|
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
|
any (platform-independent)
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| Root Access |
No
|
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.
|
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
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any server with PHP/MySQL support
|
| Other Requirements |
various opt. helpers
|
none
|
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
|
mod_rewrite (optional)
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| Datastorage | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Text Files |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| MySQL |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| PostgreSQL |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| Oracle |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| SQLite |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
Yes
|
| BerkeleyDB |
Yes
|
No
|
No
|
No
|
| RCS |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Other |
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
|
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
|
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
|
No
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| Security/Anti-Spam | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Page Permissions |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ACL |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| 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.
|
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
|
Active Directory (patch)
|
| Host Blocking |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Mail Encryption |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| nofollow |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Blacklist |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| CAPTCHA |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Delayed Indexing |
No
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Development/Support | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| # of Consultants | ||||
| Preconfigured Hosting |
No
|
Yes
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Yes
|
Yes
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| Code Repository | ||||
| Issue Tracker | ||||
| Mailing List | ||||
| Support Forum | ||||
| Chat Channel |
#phpwiki
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|||
| Stars on GitHub |
N/A
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N/A
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N/A
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42 ⭐
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| Common Features | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Preview |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Minor Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Change Summary |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page History |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Page Revisions |
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
Unlimited
|
| Revision Diffs |
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
Between all
|
| Sitemap |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Plugin System |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Special Features | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Unicode Support |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Right-to-Left Support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| 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 |
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional |
0
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| Email notification |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Comments |
Plugin
|
Discussion Pages
|
Threaded
|
Threaded
|
| Categories |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Namespaces |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Conflict Handling |
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Conflict Resolution
|
Page Locking
|
| Concurrent Editing |
Unknown
|
Yes
|
Unknown
|
Yes
|
| Search |
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
Full Text
|
| Wiki Farming |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
| Structured Data |
Patch
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Links | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| CamelCase |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Freelinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Backlinks |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| InterWiki |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| SisterWiki |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Links |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Windows Shares |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Redirects |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Syntax Features | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| HTML Tags |
Some
|
Plugin
|
All
|
Some
|
| Math formulas |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Tables |
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
simple + complex
|
| CREOLE support |
No
|
Optional
|
No
|
No
|
| Markdown Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Textile Support |
No
|
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| BBCode Support |
No
|
Plugin
|
No
|
No
|
| Emoticon Images |
No
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Syntax Highlighting |
Plugin
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Footnotes |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Quoting |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Internal Comments |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Custom styles |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| FAQ Tags |
No
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Scripting |
plugins, templates, PHP
|
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
|
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
|
Extensibility through drop-in plugins
|
| Content Includes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Feed Aggregation |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Usability | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Section Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Page Templates |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Double-Click Edit |
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Toolbar |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| WYSIWYG Editing |
Patch
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Access Keys |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Auto Signature |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Statistics | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Recent Changes |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Wanted Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
No
|
Yes
|
| Orphaned Pages |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Most/Least Popular |
Yes
|
No
|
Yes
|
Patch
|
| Recent Visitors |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Analysis |
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Output | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Printer Friendly |
Print CSS
|
Print View
|
Print View
|
Print CSS
|
| Mobile Friendly |
No
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
| Themes & Skins |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| RSS Feeds |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| ATOM Feeds |
No
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Plugin
|
| Abbreviations |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| Auto-TOC |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Raw Export |
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| HTML Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| XML export |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Patch
|
| PDF Export |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Office Export |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Media and Files | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| File Attachments |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
Yes
|
| Media Revisions |
Yes
|
Optional
|
Yes
|
No
|
| Embedded Flash |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Embedded Video |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Image Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| SVG Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| MindMap Editing |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Yes
|
| Media Search |
No
|
Filenames only
|
Contents
|
No
|
| Extras | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| Calendar |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Image Galleries |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Presentations |
Unknown
|
Plugin
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Forums |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Blogs |
Yes
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
| Ticket System |
No
|
Plugin
|
Plugin
|
No
|
| Chat |
Unknown
|
No
|
Unknown
|
No
|
| Syntax Examples | PhpWiki | PmWiki | TWiki | WikkaWiki |
| 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]] |
WikiWord autolink Otherweb.WikiWord [[Spaced text]] [[WikiWord][label]] |
CamelCase [[forced]] [[forced|This is a link]] [[forced |日本語]] |
| External Link |
http://someserver/someurl [ desc | exturl ] |
http://.... [[http://... | link text]] [[link text -> http://...]] |
http://twiki.org/ autolink [[http://twiki.org/][label]] |
http://wikkawiki.org [[http://wikkawiki.org|Wikka Wiki]] [[Wikipedia:WikkaWiki]] |
| Headlines |
!!!Headline1 !!Headline2 !Headline3 |
! Level 1 !!#anchor Level 2 !!! Level 3 |
---+ Level 1 ---++ Level 2 ---+++ Level 3 ---++++ Level 4 ---+++++ Level 5 ---++++++ Level 6 |
====== Level 1 ====== ===== Level 2 ===== ==== Level 3 ==== === Level 4 === == Level 5 == |
| Bold Format |
*bold* or <strong>bold</strong> |
'''bold''' |
*bold* |
**bold** |
| Italics Format |
_italics_ or or <em>italics</em> |
''italic'' |
_italic_ |
//italic// |
| Underline Format |
<u>underlined</u> |
{+underlined+} |
<u>underline</u> |
__underlined__ |
| Monospace Format |
<tt>monospace</tt> <code>code</code> <pre>preformatted</pre> <verbatim> unparsed text</verbatim> |
@@monospace@@ |
=monospaced text= and <verbatim> multi line text </verbatim> |
##monospaced## |
| Strikethrough Format |
<strike>striked through</strike> |
{-strikethrough-} |
<strike>strikethrough</strike> |
++Strike through text++ |
| Superscript Format |
<sup>above</sup> |
'^superscript^' |
<sup>superscript</sup> |
""<sup>Superscript</sup>"" |
| Subscript Format |
<sub>below</sub> |
'_subscript_' |
<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 |
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption |
%ATTACHURL%/image.png http://any.domain/image.png |
http://foo.bar/bar.jpg
{{image url="local.jpg"}}
{{image url="http://foo.bar/bar.jpg"}} |
| 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 |
| left | center | right | or HTML or CSS |
@@Center text@@ <<left floated<< >>right floated>> |
| Text Indentation |
;: left indent ;;: more left indent or paragraph and another level |
-> indented text --> more indentation -< hanging text --< more indentation |
<blockquote> multi line text </blockquote> |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) indented ~indented |
| Bulleted Lists |
* list or - list |
* Item 1 ** Item 1.1 * Item 2 alternatively, indented: * item 1 * item 1.1 * item 2 |
* Item 1 * Item 1.1 * Item 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~- Item 1 ~~- Item 1.1 ~- Item 2 |
| Numbered Lists |
# list |
# Item 1 ## Item 1.1 # Item 2 alternatively, indented: # Item 1 # Item 1.1 # Item 2 |
1. Item 1 a. Item 1.a 1. Item 2 |
(4 spaces or a ~ can replace a tab) ~1) Item 1 ~~1) Item 1.1 ~1) Item 2 (more options for lists are available) |
| Definition Lists |
Term:<def> def |
: term : definition |
$ Term: Definition |
""<dl> <dt>Coffee</dt> <dd>Black hot drink</dd> <dt>Milk</dt> <dd>White cold drink</dd> </dl>"" |
| Horizontal Rule |
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---- |
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| remove PhpWiki | remove PmWiki | remove TWiki | remove WikkaWiki |