TWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Zwiki

General Features TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Version
TWiki-6.1.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
0.61
Last Release Date
2018-07-16 (7 years ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2008-10-28 (17 years ago)
Last Update here
2019-07-19 (6 years ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2008-10-30 (17 years ago)
Author
Peter Thoeny, TWiki community
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL
GPLv2
Programming Language
Perl, JavaScript
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Files, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Database
License Cost/ Fee
N/A
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Large enterprise; small to medium businesses
Any
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
System Requirements TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Operating System
Linux, Windows, OS-X and other
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Almost any webserver, typically Apache and Ngnix
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Zope
Other Requirements
RCS (optional), cron/scheduler, fgrep, egrep; Plugins may have additional dependencies
various opt. helpers
Datastorage TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Plugin
MySQL
No
Yes
Plugin
PostgreSQL
No
Yes
Plugin
Oracle
No
Yes
Plugin
SQLite
No
Yes
Unknown
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
Unknown
RCS
Yes
Yes
Unknown
Other
RcsLite Perl library for version control without external RCS; backend API for other storage
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
ZODB (zope object database)
Security/Anti-Spam TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
Internal authentication; anything Apache supports such as LDAP, NIS, AD, Kerberos
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
Host Blocking
Plugin
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
Plugin
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Plugin
No
Patch
Development/Support TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
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 TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
No
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 TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
19
Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Ukrainian, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
0
Email notification
Yes
Yes
Yes
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
Flat
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
Yes
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Optional
Yes
Unknown
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
Unknown
Links TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Optional
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
Plugin
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Page Redirects
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Syntax Features TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
HTML Tags
All
Some
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
Plugin
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Patch
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Plugin
No
Footnotes
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Yes
No
Optional
Scripting
TWiki Markup Language, TWiki variables, JavaScript, extensive API
plugins, templates, PHP
DTML
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Section Editing
Plugin
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
Plugin
Optional
Patch
Toolbar
Plugin
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
No
Orphaned Pages
Plugin
Yes
Optional
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
Optional
Recent Visitors
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print View
Mobile Friendly
Plugin
No
Unknown
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
No
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
Unknown
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
Plugin
No
Yes
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Image Galleries
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
Unknown
Ticket System
Plugin
No
Unknown
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples TWiki PhpWiki Zwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord autolink
Otherweb.WikiWord
[[Spaced text]]
[[WikiWord][label]]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
External Link
http://twiki.org/ autolink
[[http://twiki.org/][label]]
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..
Headlines
---+ Level 1
---++ Level 2
---+++ Level 3
---++++ Level 4
---+++++ Level 5
---++++++ Level 6
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
*bold*
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
_italic_
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
<u>underline</u>
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
=monospaced text= and
<verbatim>
multi line text
</verbatim>
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
<strike>strikethrough</strike>
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
<sup>superscript</sup>
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>subscript</sub>
<sub>below</sub>
Images
%ATTACHURL%/image.png
http://any.domain/image.png
[ 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
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
<blockquote>
multi line text
</blockquote>
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
* Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
1. Item 1
a. Item 1.a
1. Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
$ Term: Definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
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