PhpWiki vs. UseMod vs. Zwiki vs. Oddmuse vs. PmWiki

General Features PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.2.2
0.61
2.3.13
2.6.0
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2023-11-10 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2018-09-04 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (10 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2025-02-25 (1 year ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2018-10-27 (7 years ago)
2026-05-16 (10 days ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Clifford Adams
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Alex Schroeder
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
GPL
GPL2+
Programming Language
PHP
Perl
Python
Perl
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Database
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
free
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
family people, hackers
All
System Requirements PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Windows, MacOS X
any
Anything supported by Perl
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, probably anything with CGI support
Zope
Anything supporting CGI scripts
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Writable data directory
none
Datastorage PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Plugin
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
Plugin
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
Unknown
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
No
ZODB (zope object database)
No
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
None (use your web server instead)
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Host Blocking
No
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Unknown
Yes
No
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Patch
Unknown
No
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Patch
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Patch
No
Optional
Development/Support PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
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
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Age
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
Optional
Optional
Optional
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
0
18
Bulgarian, German, Spanish, Finnish, French, Hebrew, Italian, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, 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
Email notification
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Comments
Plugin
No
Flat
Discussion Pages
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Namespaces
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
No
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Links PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Optional
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
No
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Quoting
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Yes
No
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
Optional
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
None
DTML
Perl
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Content Includes
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Section Editing
No
No
No
No
Plugin
Page Templates
Yes
No
No
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
No
No
Plugin
Optional
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Patch
No
Plugin
Optional
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Patch
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Optional
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Analysis
Plugin
No
No
No
Plugin
Output PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
No
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
Yes
Optional
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
ATOM Feeds
No
No
No
Plugin
Optional
Abbreviations
No
No
Unknown
Yes
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Plugin
XML export
No
No
Yes
No
Plugin
PDF Export
Yes
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Media and Files PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Optional
Optional
Media Revisions
Yes
No
No
Yes
Optional
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Yes
No
Plugin
Image Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
Unknown
No
Plugin
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Unknown
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Optional
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Unknown
No
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki UseMod Zwiki Oddmuse PmWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
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
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
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..
http://example.com/
[http://example.com/] → [1]

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

Depending on plugins:
[text](http://example.com/) → text
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Level 1 =
== Level 2 ==
=== Level 3 ===
==== Level 4 ====
===== Level 5 =====
====== Level 6 ======
Depending on plugins:
## two
### three
== two ==
=== three ==

section
=======

subsection
----------
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
Depending on plugins:
*bold*
**bold*
'''bold'''
'''bold'''
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
Depending on plugins:
*italic*
/italic/
//italic//
''italic''
''italic''
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
<u>underline</u>
Depending on plugins:
_underline_
__underline__
{+underlined+}
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


<tt>for monospace text</tt>
Depending on plugins:
`mono`
##mono##
[code]mono[/code]
<tt>mono</tt>
<code>mono</code>
@@monospace@@
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
N/A
via bbCode plugin:
[s]strike through[/s]
{-strikethrough-}
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via bbCode plugin:
[sup]superscript[/sup]
'^superscript^'
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via bbCode plugin:
[sub]subscript[/sub]
'_subscript_'
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
http://url.com/pic.gif
http://example.com/pic.jpg

Depending on plugins:
[[image:Name|Text|URL]] and variants
![text](URL)
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

N/A
no example known
%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
: indented
Depending on plugins:
> text

[quote]
text
[/quote]

: one
:: two
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* one
** two
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
Depending on plugins:
1. one
2. two

# one
## two
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
;Term:Definition
Depending on plugins:
; term: definition
: term : definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
Depending on plugins:
----
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