XWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. Hatta

General Features XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Version
18.4.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.6.6
Last Release Date
2026-05-27 (7 days ago)
2007-07-01 (18 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Last Update here
2026-05-27 (7 days ago)
2009-04-03 (17 years ago)
2015-08-29 (10 years ago)
Author
XWiki Development Team
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Radomir Dopieralski
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
LGPL + Free hosting on https://myxwiki.org for individuals/non profit
GPL
GPL v2
Programming Language
Java
PHP
Python
Data Storage
Database, RCS
Database, Files, RCS
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Enterprise, Workgroups, Developers
Any
Hosting Features XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
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
Yes
N/A
N/A
Own Domain
Yes
N/A
N/A
Ads allowed
No
N/A
N/A
System Requirements XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Operating System
Any platform supporting Java 17 or greater
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, Unix, Windows, MacOSX
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Servlet 5.0+
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Standalone, WSGI, FastCGI, CGI
Other Requirements
Java 17, MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL/HSQLDB/etc (JDBC Driver required)
various opt. helpers
Mercurial
Datastorage XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Text Files
No
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
Yes
No
Oracle
Yes
Yes
No
SQLite
No
Yes
Optional
BerkeleyDB
No
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Other
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
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Plain text files in Mercurial repository, with SQLite index
Security/Anti-Spam XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
No
Authentication Backends
XWiki, OpenID Connect, LDAP, custom (Open API), Kerberos, NTLM, Headers, PUMA, SAML, Trusted LDAP, Sun SSO
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
n/a
Host Blocking
No
No
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
No
Yes
nofollow
No
Yes
No
Blacklist
Plugin
Yes
No
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
Optional
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
#wiki at freenode.net
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
N/A
Common Features XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
Yes
Yes
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
No
Special Features XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
No
Optional
Interface Languages
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
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
15
Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Spanish, Estonian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Polish, Russian, Swedish
Email notification
Yes
Yes
No
Comments
Threaded
Plugin
No
Categories
Yes
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
Yes
No
Optional
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Optional
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
No
Links XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
No
SisterWiki
Yes
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
No
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
HTML Tags
All
Some
None
Math formulas
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
Yes
No
Yes
Markdown Support
Yes
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Yes
No
Optional
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Optional
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
No
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Plugin
No
No
Scripting
velocity, groovy, ruby, jython, generic JSR223 & very powerful API
plugins, templates, PHP
JavaScript
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
No
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
No
Usability XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Section Editing
Yes
No
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
No
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
Yes
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
No
Yes
No
Statistics XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Yes
Yes
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Yes
No
Analysis
Yes
Plugin
No
Output XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Optional
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
No
ATOM Feeds
Optional
No
Yes
Abbreviations
Plugin
No
No
Auto-TOC
Optional
Yes
No
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
No
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Yes
No
Office Export
Yes
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
No
Image Editing
Plugin
No
No
SVG Editing
Plugin
No
No
MindMap Editing
Plugin
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
Filenames only
Extras XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
No
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Plugin
Yes
No
Blogs
Plugin
Yes
No
Ticket System
Plugin
No
No
Chat
Plugin
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples XWiki PhpWiki Hatta
Internal Link 
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)
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
[[link]]
[[link|label]]
External Link 
[[wiki syntax here>>http://www.xwiki.com]]
http://www.xwiki.com
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://example.com
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|label]]
[[http://example.com|{{image}}]]
Headlines 
= Headline
== Subheadline
=== Sub-subheadline
==== etc..
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

= h1 =
== h2 ==
...
===== h5 =====
Bold Format 
**bold**
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
**bold**
Italics Format 
//Italics//
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
//italic//
Underline Format 
__underline__
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
n/a
Monospace Format 
##monospace##
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



{{{verbatim}}}
Strikethrough Format 
--Strike--
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
n/a
Superscript Format 
^^superscript^^
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
n/a
Subscript Format 
,,subscript,,
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
n/a
Images 
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
 
[ 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}}
{{image|alt}}
Aligning Text 
(% style="... css here..." %)Text
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


n/a
Text Indentation 
Non-semantic text indentation through styling:

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

Quotes:

> This is a quoted text
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

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