PhpWiki vs. PmWiki vs. DokuWiki

General Features PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Version
phpwiki-1.3.14
2.3.33
2020-07-29 "Hogfather"
Last Release Date
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
2024-04-20 (25 days ago)
2020-07-19 (3 years ago)
Last Update here
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
2024-04-21 (24 days ago)
2021-08-09 (2 years ago)
Author
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
Petko Yotov (Original author: Patrick R. Michaud)
Andreas Gohr
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPL
GPL2+
GPL 2
Programming Language
PHP
PHP
PHP
Data Storage
Database, Files, RCS
Files
Files
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
Any
All
personal, small to medium companies
System Requirements PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Operating System
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Linux, UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support. Can also be run w/o a webserver.
Apache, IIS, Nginx, Lighttpd, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
various opt. helpers
none
Datastorage PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Text Files
Yes
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Yes
Plugin
No
PostgreSQL
Yes
No
No
Oracle
Yes
No
No
SQLite
Yes
Plugin
No
BerkeleyDB
Yes
No
No
RCS
Yes
Plugin
No
Other
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Compressed, XML and/or ephemeral files (modules). Can provide custom data backends.
None
Security/Anti-Spam PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Internal: per page, per group, per user, per user group. External: .htpasswd, LDAP, Active Directory. Plugins: Mailman, forums w/MySQL, oAuth, custom possible.
Textfile, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, ActiveDirectory
Host Blocking
No
Optional
Plugin
Mail Encryption
No
Optional
Optional
nofollow
Yes
Yes
Optional
Blacklist
Yes
Optional
Optional
CAPTCHA
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Delayed Indexing
No
Optional
Optional
Development/Support PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
No
Yes
Yes
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
N/A
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Common Features PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
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
Yes
Special Features PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
No
Optional
Yes
Interface Languages
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
38
Arabic, Bulgarian, Breton, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Latvian, Lettish, Macedonian, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Albanian, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese, 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
Email notification
Yes
Optional
Optional
Comments
Plugin
Discussion Pages
Plugin
Categories
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Namespaces
No
Yes
Yes
Conflict Handling
Conflict Resolution
Conflict Resolution
Page Locking
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Yes
No
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Structured Data
Patch
Yes
Plugin
Links PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
CamelCase
Yes
Optional
Optional
Freelinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
Plugin
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Yes
Yes
Yes
Page Redirects
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Syntax Features PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
HTML Tags
Some
Plugin
Optional
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple
CREOLE support
No
Optional
Plugin
Markdown Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Textile Support
No
No
Plugin
BBCode Support
No
Plugin
Plugin
Emoticon Images
No
Plugin
Yes
Syntax Highlighting
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Footnotes
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Plugin
FAQ Tags
No
Yes
Plugin
Scripting
plugins, templates, PHP
MarkupExpressions (core, many add-ons). PageLists with templates (core structured data scripting). WikiSh (plugin), Data forms (optional)
Optional, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Plugin
Feed Aggregation
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Usability PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Section Editing
No
Plugin
Yes
Page Templates
Yes
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Optional
Plugin
Plugin
Toolbar
Yes
Optional
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Patch
Plugin
Plugin
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Yes
Yes
Statistics PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Orphaned Pages
Yes
Optional
Plugin
Most/Least Popular
Yes
No
No
Recent Visitors
Yes
Plugin
No
Analysis
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Output PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Printer Friendly
Print CSS
Print View
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
No
Yes
Yes
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Optional
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Optional
Yes
Abbreviations
No
Plugin
Yes
Auto-TOC
Yes
Optional
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Plugin
Yes
XML export
No
Plugin
No
PDF Export
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Office Export
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Media and Files PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Optional
Yes
Media Revisions
Yes
Optional
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Image Editing
No
Plugin
No
SVG Editing
No
No
Plugin
MindMap Editing
No
Plugin
Plugin
Media Search
No
Filenames only
Filenames only
Extras PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Calendar
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Image Galleries
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Presentations
Unknown
Plugin
Plugin
Forums
Yes
Plugin
No
Blogs
Yes
Plugin
Plugin
Ticket System
No
Plugin
Plugin
Chat
Unknown
No
No
Syntax Examples PhpWiki PmWiki DokuWiki
Internal Link
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
[[page name]]
[[page name | link text]]
[[link text -> page name]]
[[#anchor]]
[[#anchor|link to anchor]]
[[page name #anchor]]
[[a Link]]
[[namespace:link]]
[[link|With a Title]]
External Link
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
http://....
[[http://... | link text]]
[[link text -> http://...]]
[[http://example.com]]
[[http://example.com|With a Title]]
Headlines
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
====== Level 1 ======
===== Level 2 =====
==== Level 3 ====
=== Level 4 ===
== Level 5 ==
Bold Format
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
'''bold'''
**bold**
Italics Format
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
''italic''
//italics//
Underline Format
<u>underlined</u>
{+underlined+}
__underlined__
Monospace Format
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


@@monospace@@
''monospace''
Strikethrough Format
<strike>striked through</strike>
{-strikethrough-}
<del>strikethrough</del>
Superscript Format
<sup>above</sup>
'^superscript^'
<sup>superscript</sup>
Subscript Format
<sub>below</sub>
'_subscript_'
<sub>subscript</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
https://foo.bar/foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg
Attach:foo.jpg"alt/title text" | Caption
{{local.jpg}}
{{http://foo.bar/baz.jpg}}
Aligning Text
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

%center% centered text
%right% right aligned
%lfloat% left floating text
%rfloat% right floating text
%rframe% right floating frame
%lframe% left floating frame
Plugin
Text Indentation
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
-> indented text
--> more indentation
-< hanging text
--< more indentation
N/A
Bulleted Lists
* list
or
- list
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
alternatively, indented:
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
* item 1
* item 1.1
* item 2
Numbered Lists
# list
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
alternatively, indented:
# Item 1
# Item 1.1
# Item 2
- item 1
- item 1.1
- item 2
Definition Lists
Term:<def>
def
: term : definition
Plugin
Horizontal Rule
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