PhpWiki vs. WikiPack

General Features PhpWiki WikiPack
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
N/A
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (19 years ago)
N/A
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2012-05-23 (14 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Mark Beattie
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
N/A
License
GPL
N/A
Programming Language
PHP
N/A
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
N/A
License Cost/ Fee
0
Free while in open beta
Development status
Mature
N/A
Intended Audience
Any
Individual Markdown geeks & writers
Hosting Features PhpWiki WikiPack
Storage Quota
N/A
None (determined by Dropbox plan)
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
None
Other Limits
N/A
None while in open beta
Topic Restrictions
N/A
None
Corporate Branding
N/A
No
Own Domain
N/A
No
Ads allowed
N/A
No
System Requirements PhpWiki WikiPack
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
N/A
Root Access
No
N/A
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
N/A
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
N/A
Datastorage PhpWiki WikiPack
Text Files
Yes
N/A
MySQL
Yes
N/A
PostgreSQL
Yes
N/A
Oracle
Yes
N/A
SQLite
Yes
N/A
BerkeleyDB
Yes
N/A
RCS
Yes
N/A
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
N/A
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki WikiPack
Page Permissions
Yes
No
ACL
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
N/A
Host Blocking
No
No
Mail Encryption
No
No
nofollow
Yes
No
Blacklist
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
No
No
Development/Support PhpWiki WikiPack
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
N/A
Code Repository
N/A
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki WikiPack
Preview
Yes
No
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
No
Special Features PhpWiki WikiPack
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
No
Comments
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
N/A
Structured Data
Patch
No
Links PhpWiki WikiPack
CamelCase
Yes
No
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
No
SisterWiki
No
No
Image Links
Yes
No
Windows Shares
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
No
Syntax Features PhpWiki WikiPack
HTML Tags
Some
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Tables
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
No
FAQ Tags
No
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
None
Content Includes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
No
Usability PhpWiki WikiPack
Section Editing
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
No
Statistics PhpWiki WikiPack
Recent Changes
Yes
No
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Output PhpWiki WikiPack
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
No
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
No
RSS Feeds
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Abbreviations
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
No
HTML Export
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki WikiPack
File Attachments
Yes
No
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
No
Image Editing
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Media Search
No
No
Extras PhpWiki WikiPack
Calendar
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Blogs
Yes
No
Ticket System
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki WikiPack
Internal Link 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[LinkToSomePage|link to some page]]
External Link 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
[Google](http://google.com)
Headlines 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

# Heading 1
## Heading 2
### Heading etc
Bold Format 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
_italic_
Underline Format 
<u>underlined</u>
 
not supported
Monospace Format 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



indent 4 spaces (or 2 tabs)
for code blocks
Strikethrough Format 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
not supported
Superscript Format 
<sup>above</sup>
 
not supported
Subscript Format 
<sub>below</sub>
 
not supported
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

![External image](http://somesite.com/imageurl.jpg)
Aligning Text 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


not supported
Text Indentation 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

> Prefix block quotes with an angled bracket
>> Nest brackets to control indentation
Bulleted Lists 
* list
or
- list
 
* list item one
* list item two
* sub item one
Numbered Lists 
# list
 
1. item one
2. item two
1. Sub item
Definition Lists 
Term:<def>
def
 
not supported
Horizontal Rule 
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