TWiki vs. KeheiWiki vs. PukiWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
Pleiades-M45
1.5.1
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2005-03-22 (21 years ago)
2016-03-07 (10 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-12-23 (16 years ago)
2016-03-23 (10 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
team
PukiWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
LGPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
GPL
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
Perl
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Files, RCS
Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
corporate and special interest groups
One theme, one PukiWiki
Any
System Requirements TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
Unix/Linux
OS independent
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache 1.3 or better CGI (any level)
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
perl 4 or newer
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
various opt. helpers
Datastorage TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
No
Plugin
No
Yes
PostgreSQL
No
Plugin
No
Yes
Oracle
No
Plugin
No
Yes
SQLite
No
Plugin
No
Yes
BerkeleyDB
No
Plugin
No
Yes
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
archiving plugin, designed for unionFS
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
Apache
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
No
No
nofollow
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Plugin
Plugin
Patch
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
Plugin
No
No
Development/Support TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#pukiwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
No
No
Yes
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Unlimited
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Between all
Sitemap
Yes
Optional
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Threaded
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Detection
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
No
Yes
Structured Data
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Links TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
No
Patch
Yes
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
No
Yes
Syntax Features TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
All
All
Plugin
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
No
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
complex
complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Unknown
No
No
Markdown Support
No
Unknown
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
Optional
No
No
BBCode Support
No
Optional
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Yes
No
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Plugin
No
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
Yes
No
No
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
Yes - custom tags, javascript, variables
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
Plugin
Yes
Patch
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
No
Optional
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Yes
No
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Statistics TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Plugin
No
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
Plugin
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Plugin
Output TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
Yes
Optional
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
Yes
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Plugin
No
Yes
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
Keywords
No
No
Extras TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Plugin
No
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Plugin
No
No
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Yes
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Optional
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki KeheiWiki PukiWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
%topic%  ( '%' configurable )
or
<link topic>text</link>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
http://gmail.com/
or
<extern http://gmail.com>a mail server</extern>
or
use HTML in rich text editor
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
text  ----    
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
*bold*
_ text _ 
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
''bold''
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
_italic_
* text *
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
'''italic'''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%%underlined%%%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<wiki code>
stuff
</wiki code>
N/A
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
%%strikethrough%%
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
<sub>below</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
[ 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
Aligning Text
| left |   center   |   right |
or HTML
or CSS
<p align=right> stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
<ul>
stuff
</ul>
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
N/A
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* text
or
<!> text
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
digits. stuff
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
term:    definition
or
insert HTML via WYSIWYG editor
:term|definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
---
can use plain < HR > tag or
via WYSIWYG editor
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