PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. UseMod vs. Oddmuse

General Features PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.6.0
1.2.2
2.3.13
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year 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)
Clifford Adams
Alex Schroeder
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
All
family people, hackers
System Requirements PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
Anything supported by Perl
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.
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
Writable data directory
Datastorage PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
No
No
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Unknown
No
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Patch
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Patch
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
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
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Unknown
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
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
No
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Links PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
No
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Unknown
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
No
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
None
Perl
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Yes
Usability PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
No
Plugin
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
No
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Plugin
Statistics PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Patch
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Output PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
No
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
No
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media and Files PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
No
No
Image Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
No
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod Oddmuse
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
No
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Optional
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
No
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki PmWiki UseMod 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
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

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


@@monospace@@
<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</sub>
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://url.com/pic.gif
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
N/A
no example known
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
: indented
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
* 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
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

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