JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki vs. PukiWiki

General Features JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Version
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
1.5.1
Last Release Date
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (17 years ago)
2016-03-06 (8 years ago)
Last Update here
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2016-03-23 (8 years ago)
Author
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
PukiWiki Development Team
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
Apache License 2.0
GPL
GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later version
Programming Language
Java
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
all
Any
One theme, one PukiWiki
System Requirements JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Operating System
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
OS independent
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
tar with "-p" option, or unzip for install. "mbstring" PHP extension for multi-bite support. backup feature wants 'zip' PHP extension.
Datastorage JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Optional
Yes
No
PostgreSQL
Optional
Yes
No
Oracle
Optional
Yes
No
SQLite
Optional
Yes
No
BerkeleyDB
Optional
Yes
No
RCS
Plugin
Yes
No
Other
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
zip-compressed text files for backup (with "zip" PHP extension)
Security/Anti-Spam JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
LDIF strings compatible with OpenLDAP, LDAP
Host Blocking
Optional
No
Patch
Mail Encryption
Plugin
No
No
nofollow
Optional
Yes
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Patch
CAPTCHA
Yes
Yes
No
Delayed Indexing
Yes
No
No
Development/Support JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
No
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
#pukiwiki
Stars on GitHub
88 ⭐
N/A
N/A
Common Features JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
Yes
No
Change Summary
Yes
Yes
No
Page History
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Revisions
Unlimited
Unlimited
Restricted by Number
Revision Diffs
Between all
Between all
To current
Sitemap
Yes
Yes
Yes
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Yes
No
No
Interface Languages
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
5
German, English, Japanese, Korean, Twi
Email notification
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Comments
Flat
Plugin
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
No
Namespaces
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Detection
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Patch
Yes
No
Structured Data
Yes
Patch
No
Links JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Optional
Yes
Patch
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
No
Syntax Features JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Some
Plugin
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
complex
CREOLE support
Yes
No
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Plugin
No
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Optional
Internal Comments
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
No
No
Scripting
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
plugins(PHP), skins(PHP), CSSes(PHP,CSS)
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Optional
Yes
Plugin
Usability JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Section Editing
Yes
No
Patch
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
No
Optional
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
Patch
WYSIWYG Editing
Yes
Patch
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Optional
Yes
No
Statistics JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Yes
No
Most/Least Popular
No
Yes
Plugin
Recent Visitors
No
Yes
No
Analysis
No
Plugin
No
Output JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Yes
No
Optional
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
Yes
No
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
No
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Plugin
HTML Export
Optional
Yes
No
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Plugin
Yes
No
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
No
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Image Editing
No
No
Plugin
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Contents
No
No
Extras JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Calendar
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Yes
No
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blogs
Yes
Yes
Optional
Ticket System
No
No
Optional
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples JSPWiki PhpWiki PukiWiki
Internal Link 
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
 
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
 
PageNameAsWikiName
[[PageName]]
[[link text>PageName]]
External Link 
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
 
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
 
http://....
[[link text>http://....]]
[[interwiki:keyphrase]]
[[link text>interwiki:keyphrase]]
Headlines 
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
 
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3

* Level 1
** Level 2
*** Level 3
Bold Format 
__bold__
 
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
 
''bold''
Italics Format 
''italics''
 
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
 
'''italic'''
Underline Format 
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
 
<u>underlined</u>
 
%%%underlined%%%
Monospace Format 
{{monospace}}
 
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>



N/A
Strikethrough Format 
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
 
<strike>striked through</strike>
 
%%strikethrough%%
Superscript Format 
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
 
<sup>above</sup>
 
N/A
Subscript Format 
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
 
<sub>below</sub>
 
N/A
Images 
[local.jpg]
[{Image src='local.jpg'}]
[{Image src='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

#ref(pagename/filename[,option])
&ref(pagename/filename[,option]);
&ref(http://foo.bar/foo.jpg[,option]);
http://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Aligning Text 
%%(text-align: right) text %%
 
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>


CENTER:center
RIGHT:right
LEFT:left
Text Indentation 
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
 
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 

N/A
Bulleted Lists 
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
 
* list
or
- list
 
- Item 1
-- Item 1.1
- Item 2
Numbered Lists 
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
 
# list
 
+ Item 1
++ Item 1.1
+ Item 2
Definition Lists 
;term:definition
 
Term:<def>
def
 
:term|definition
Horizontal Rule 
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