PhpWiki vs. Zwiki vs. XWiki

General Features PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
18.3.0
Last Release Date
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
2026-04-27 (28 days ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
2026-04-28 (27 days ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
XWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPLv2
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
Programming Language
PHP
Python
Java
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Database
Database, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Hosting Features PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Storage Quota
N/A
N/A
Bandwidth Quota
N/A
N/A
Other Limits
N/A
N/A
Topic Restrictions
N/A
N/A
Corporate Branding
N/A
N/A
Yes
Own Domain
N/A
N/A
Yes
Ads allowed
N/A
N/A
No
System Requirements PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Servlet 5.0+
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
Datastorage PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Text Files
Yes
Plugin
No
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
PostgreSQL
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Oracle
Yes
Plugin
Yes
SQLite
Yes
Unknown
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
Unknown
No
RCS
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC Databases and in general any database supported by Hibernate; any custom implementation, as the storage is pluggable. Attachments can be saved on the filesystem
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
Host Blocking
No
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
No
Yes
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Unknown
No
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Plugin
CAPTCHA
Yes
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
No
Patch
Yes
Development/Support PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
# 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 Zwiki XWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
Yes
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 Zwiki XWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
No
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
40
Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Marathi, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Uighur, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Flat
Threaded
Categories
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Unknown
Yes
Links PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Optional
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
Yes
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Syntax Features PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
All
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
Yes
Markdown Support
No
No
Yes
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
No
Patch
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
No
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Optional
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Section Editing
No
No
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
No
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Patch
No
Toolbar
Yes
No
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
No
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Optional
Yes
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Analysis
Plugin
No
Yes
Output PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Unknown
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
No
Optional
Abbreviations
No
Unknown
Plugin
Auto-TOC
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
Yes
Yes
PDF Export
Yes
Patch
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Yes
Media and Files PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
No
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Contents
Extras PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Calendar
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Unknown
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Blogs
Yes
Unknown
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Unknown
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Plugin
Syntax Examples PhpWiki Zwiki XWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
XWiki supports 16+ input syntaxes (e.g. confluence, twiki, docbook, mediawiki, xwiki, markdown, etc), see http://rendering.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome#HSupportedSyntaxes for details.

The syntax documented below is XWiki Syntax 2.1 (http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/XWikiSyntax).

[[wiki syntax here>>Space.Page]]
[[Space.Page]]
(Space is optional and is the current space if not specified)
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..
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//Italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underline__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


##monospace##
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
--Strike--
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
^^superscript^^
Subscript Format
<sub>below</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
image:img.png
image:Space.Page@img.png
[[image:img.png||width="25" height="25"]]
image:http://some/url/img.png

Starting with the xwiki/2.1 syntax, also:
image:icon:cancel
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

(% style="... css here..." %)Text
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

(% style="... css here..." %)multi line text

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* List
** list
*** list
Numbered Lists
# list
1. Item 1
11. Item 2
111. Item 3
1. Item 4
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
; term
: definition
Horizontal Rule
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