PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (16 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2021-12-01 (3 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
all
System Requirements PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
No
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
Optional
RCS
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Yes
Development/Support PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Yes
Links PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Optional
Usability PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Yes
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Optional
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Contents
Contents
Extras PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki TWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
''italics''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='http://foo.bar/foo.jpg'}]
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
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