PhpWiki vs. TWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
TWiki-6.1.0
0.61
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
PHP
Perl, JavaScript
Python
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
0
N/A
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Zope
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
Datastorage PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
Oracle
Yes
No
Plugin
SQLite
Yes
No
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
Unknown
RCS
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
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
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Patch
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blacklist
Yes
Plugin
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Plugin
Patch
Development/Support PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
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 Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
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
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Threaded
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Optional
Unknown
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Unknown
Links PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
Some
All
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
Plugin
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Optional
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Patch
Toolbar
Yes
Plugin
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
Yes
No
Output PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Plugin
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
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
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki TWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
Bare urls plus markup-specific 
link syntax. This and all 
following syntax examples depend 
on which markup mode is used for 
a page, including:

restructured text, structured 
text, wikiwikiweb, moinmoin, 
html, plaintext..
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
*bold*
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
_italic_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</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
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
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 Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
$ Term: Definition
Horizontal Rule
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