Zwiki vs. JSPWiki vs. PhpWiki

General Features Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Version
0.61
2.11.0
phpwiki-1.3.14
Last Release Date
2008-10-27 (15 years ago)
2021-11-21 (2 years ago)
2007-06-30 (16 years ago)
Last Update here
2008-10-30 (15 years ago)
2021-12-01 (2 years ago)
2009-04-03 (15 years ago)
Author
Simon Michael & the Zwiki dev team
Apache Software Foundation
Steve Wainstead, Jeff Dairiki, Reini Urban, Carsten Klapp, Marc-Etienne Vargenau
URL
Free and Open Source
Yes
Yes
Yes
License
GPLv2
Apache License 2.0
GPL
Programming Language
Python
Java
PHP
Data Storage
Database
Database, Files
Database, Files, RCS
License Cost/ Fee
0
0
0
Development status
Mature
Mature
Mature
Intended Audience
anyone able to install or get access to a zope server
all
Any
System Requirements Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Operating System
any
any platform supporting JDK 1.8+
UNIX, Windows, MacOS X, probably others
Root Access
No
No
No
Webserver
Zope
Any servlet 3.1 compliant web server, e.g. Tomcat 8.5+, Jetty, Glassfish, Websphere
Apache, IIS, anything with PHP support
Other Requirements
optional JavaMail for mailing functionality
various opt. helpers
Datastorage Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Text Files
Plugin
Yes
Yes
MySQL
Plugin
Optional
Yes
PostgreSQL
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Oracle
Plugin
Optional
Yes
SQLite
Unknown
Optional
Yes
BerkeleyDB
Unknown
Optional
Yes
RCS
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Other
ZODB (zope object database)
JDBC driver must be provided manually; also Page provider architecture -> several implementations
gdbm, cvs, MSSQL, ... (ADODB, PearDB)
Security/Anti-Spam Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Page Permissions
Yes
Yes
Yes
ACL
Yes
Yes
Yes
Authentication Backends
any supported by Zope authentication plugins
JAAS -> interface to many external backends possible
db, session, pop, imap, ldap, file, webserver
Host Blocking
Patch
Optional
No
Mail Encryption
Yes
Plugin
No
nofollow
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Blacklist
Yes
Yes
Yes
CAPTCHA
No
Yes
Yes
Delayed Indexing
Patch
Yes
No
Development/Support Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
# of Consultants
Preconfigured Hosting
Yes
No
No
Code Repository
Issue Tracker
Mailing List
Support Forum
Chat Channel
#zwiki on freenode
Freenode: #jspwiki
#phpwiki
Stars on GitHub
N/A
88 ⭐
N/A
Common Features Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Preview
Yes
Yes
Yes
Minor Changes
No
No
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 Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Unicode Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
Right-to-Left Support
Optional
Yes
No
Interface Languages
0
10
Breton, German, English, Spanish, Finnish, French, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Chinese
9
German, English, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Chinese Traditional
Email notification
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Comments
Flat
Flat
Plugin
Categories
No
Yes
Yes
Namespaces
No
No
No
Conflict Handling
Conflict Detection
Page Locking
Conflict Resolution
Concurrent Editing
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Search
Full Text
Full Text
Full Text
Wiki Farming
Unknown
Patch
Yes
Structured Data
Unknown
Yes
Patch
Links Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
CamelCase
Optional
Yes
Yes
Freelinks
Optional
Yes
Yes
Backlinks
Yes
Yes
Yes
InterWiki
Yes
Yes
Yes
SisterWiki
No
No
No
Image Links
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows Shares
Unknown
Optional
Yes
Page Redirects
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Syntax Features Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
HTML Tags
Optional
Optional
Some
Math formulas
Plugin
Plugin
Plugin
Tables
simple + complex
simple + complex
simple + complex
CREOLE support
No
Yes
No
Markdown Support
No
No
No
Textile Support
No
No
No
BBCode Support
No
No
No
Emoticon Images
Patch
Plugin
No
Syntax Highlighting
No
Yes
Plugin
Footnotes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Quoting
Yes
Yes
Yes
Internal Comments
Yes
Plugin
Yes
Custom styles
Yes
Yes
Yes
FAQ Tags
Optional
No
No
Scripting
DTML
plugins for JavaScript, TCL and Groovy
plugins, templates, PHP
Content Includes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Feed Aggregation
Plugin
Optional
Yes
Usability Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Section Editing
No
Yes
No
Page Templates
No
Yes
Yes
Double-Click Edit
Patch
No
Optional
Toolbar
No
Yes
Yes
WYSIWYG Editing
Plugin
Yes
Patch
Access Keys
Yes
Yes
Yes
Auto Signature
Yes
Optional
Yes
Statistics Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Recent Changes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Wanted Pages
No
Yes
Yes
Orphaned Pages
Optional
Yes
Yes
Most/Least Popular
Optional
No
Yes
Recent Visitors
Plugin
No
Yes
Analysis
No
No
Plugin
Output Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Printer Friendly
Print View
Print CSS
Print CSS
Mobile Friendly
Unknown
Yes
No
Themes & Skins
Yes
Yes
Yes
RSS Feeds
Yes
Yes
Yes
ATOM Feeds
No
Yes
No
Abbreviations
Unknown
No
No
Auto-TOC
Plugin
Yes
Yes
Raw Export
Yes
Yes
Yes
HTML Export
Yes
Optional
Yes
XML export
Yes
No
No
PDF Export
Patch
Plugin
Yes
Office Export
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Media and Files Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
File Attachments
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media Revisions
No
Yes
Yes
Embedded Flash
Yes
Yes
Yes
Embedded Video
Yes
Yes
Yes
Image Editing
No
No
No
SVG Editing
No
No
No
MindMap Editing
No
No
No
Media Search
Filenames only
Contents
No
Extras Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Calendar
Unknown
Plugin
Yes
Image Galleries
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Presentations
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Forums
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Blogs
Unknown
Yes
Yes
Ticket System
Unknown
No
No
Chat
Unknown
Unknown
Unknown
Syntax Examples Zwiki JSPWiki PhpWiki
Internal Link
WikiName
[freeform name]
[[double-bracketed]]
[link]
[text|link]
[text|wiki:link]
WikiWord or [somelink]
[ desc | pagename ]
External Link
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..
[http://www.example.com/]
[example|http://www.example.com/]
[text|wiki:link]
http://someserver/someurl
[ desc | exturl ]
Headlines
! Level 1
!! Level 2
!!! Level 3
!!!Headline1
!!Headline2
!Headline3
Bold Format
__bold__
*bold* or
<strong>bold</strong>
Italics Format
''italics''
_italics_ or 
or
<em>italics</em>
Underline Format
%%(text-decoration: underline) text %%
<u>underlined</u>
Monospace Format
{{monospace}}
<tt>monospace</tt>
<code>code</code>
<pre>preformatted</pre>
<verbatim>
unparsed text</verbatim>


Strikethrough Format
%%(text-decoration: line-through) deleted text %%
<strike>striked through</strike>
Superscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sup) text %%
<sup>above</sup>
Subscript Format
%%(vertical-align: sub) text %%
<sub>below</sub>
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
Aligning Text
%%(text-align: right) text %%
<?plugin RawHtml <span align="right"> ?>right<?plugin RawHtml </span> ?>
or <div align="right"> right </div>

Text Indentation
%%(text-indent: 20px) 20 pixels %%
%%(text-indent: 30%) 30 percent %%
;: left indent
;;: more left indent

or 
paragraph
and another level 
Bulleted Lists
* Item 1
** Item 1.1
* Item 2
* list
or
- list
Numbered Lists
# Item 1
## Item 1.1
# Item 2
# list
Definition Lists
;term:definition
Term:<def>
def
Horizontal Rule
----
----
remove Zwiki remove JSPWiki remove PhpWiki