PhpWiki vs. DokuWiki vs. ikiwiki

General Features PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
2.67
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
2008-10-16 (15 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
2008-10-28 (15 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Andreas Gohr
Joey Hess and the ikiwiki community
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL 2
GPL
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
Perl
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
personal, small to medium companies
Anyone
System Requirements PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Any
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Any, or none
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
Datastorage PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
No
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
No
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
No
Yes
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
None
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Built-in, HTTP auth, OpenID; extensible via plugins
Host Blocking
No
Plugin
Yes
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Yes
nofollow
Yes
Optional
No
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Yes
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
No
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
No
Development/Support PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
3582 ⭐
N/A
Common Features PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
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
Plugin
Plugin System
Yes
Yes
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Yes
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
68
Afrikaans, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Byelorussian, Bulgarian, Bengali; Bangla, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Persian, Finnish, Faroese, French, Frisian, Galician, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua, Indonesian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Georgian, Kazakh, Cambodian, Kannada, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Malagasy, Macedonian, Malayalam, Marathi, Malay, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhalese, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Serbian, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Chinese, Chinese Traditional
1
English
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Yes
Comments
Plugin
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Categories
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
No
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Structured Data
Patch
Plugin
Unknown
Links PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Plugin
SisterWiki
No
No
Plugin
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Plugin
Unknown
Syntax Features PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
HTML Tags
Some
Optional
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Plugin
No
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Yes
Textile Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
No
Emoticon Images
No
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
No
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Plugin
Yes
FAQ Tags
No
Plugin
Yes
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
Optional, PHP
safe subset of HTML::Template supported via template plugin
Content Includes
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Usability PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
No
Toolbar
Yes
Yes
No
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
No
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
No
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
No
Statistics PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
No
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
No
Output PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Plugin
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
Plugin
Abbreviations
No
Yes
No
Auto-TOC
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
XML export
No
No
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
No
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Media and Files PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Optional
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Optional
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
Plugin
No
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
No
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Unknown
Forums
Yes
No
Unknown
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Yes
Chat
Unknown
No
Unknown
Syntax Examples PhpWiki DokuWiki ikiwiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
[[internal]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
[link text](http://example.org)
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Two syntaxes:

# heading 1
## heading 2
### heading 3

heading 1
=========

heading 2
---------
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
**bold**
**bold**
__bold__
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
//italics//
*emphasized*
_emphasized_
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
__underlined__
via HTML: <u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


''monospace''
`inline monospace`

indented block of
monospaced text

tab-indented
block
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
<del>strikethrough</del>
via HTML: <del>deleted</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
<sup>superscript</sup>
via HTML: x<sup>2</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
<sub>subscript</sub>
via HTML: a<sub>1</sub>
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
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
![alt text](internal/image)
![alt text](http://example.org/external/image)
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Plugin
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 2
* item 2.1
* item 2.2
Numbered Lists
# list
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
1. item 1
2. item 2
1. item 1.1
42. the value doesn't matter
1. any value works
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
Plugin
via HTML:
<dl>
<dt>term</dt>
<dd>definition</dd>
</dl>
Horizontal Rule
----
----
---
***
___
------------------
Any number > 3
- - - - - - - - - -
spaces don't matter
remove PhpWiki remove DokuWiki remove ikiwiki