PhpWiki vs. Zwiki vs. PmWiki vs. JSPWiki

General Features PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
2.6.0
2.11.0
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2021-11-22 (4 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-05-16 (1 month ago)
2021-12-01 (4 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Apache Software Foundation
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv2
GPL2+
Apache License 2.0
Programming Language
PHP
Python
PHP
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Files
Database, Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
All
all
System Requirements PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run with PHP's built-in webserver.
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
Datastorage PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
No
Optional
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Optional
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Unknown
No
Optional
RCS
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
Host Blocking
No
Patch
Optional
Optional
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Optional
Plugin
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
Optional
Yes
Development/Support PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
117 ⭐
Common Features PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
Between all
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
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
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Discussion Pages
Flat
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Links PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Optional
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Optional
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Yes
No
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Optional
Usability PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Patch
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Optional
Statistics PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
Output PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Optional
XML export
No
Yes
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Zwiki PmWiki JSPWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
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://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!!#anchor Level 2
!!! Level 3
! 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>
{+underlined+}
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
{{monospace}}
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
%%(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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
[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>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
%%(text-align: right) text %%
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
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
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
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
;term:definition
Horizontal Rule
----
----
----
remove PhpWiki remove Zwiki remove PmWiki remove JSPWiki