Features of PmWiki

• Option : Parameter(s) defined in the configuration file
• Addon : File(s) to be loaded separately

SYSTEM

Page storage

Flat files; no need for a database. Can handle thousands of pages. See Flat File Advantages.

Server Requirements

PHP 4.3.x minimum; can run in safe mode. See Web Hosts and the Standalone Cookbook recipe.

Upgrades

By simply copying new version files or export from the Subversion repository

Addons

There are more than 200 Cookbook recipes.

SECURITY

SPAM protection

By blocking words, IP addresses (addon), and by limiting the quantity of non-approved URLs (option), by encrypting the email address (addon)

Passwords

Page, group or site based, see also PasswordsAdmin

User authentication

Available as an option (AuthUser) or an addon (UserAuth).

FEATURES

Page editing

Similar to others Wikis, has a button bar (PmWiki 2.0.beta16+) and preview. Handles simultaneous edits. Addon for spell checking

Page history

History pages include Restore links. Configurable number of days of history.

Free links and WikiWords

WikiWord links are an option in version 2.1. In previous releases they were enabled by default.

Intersites links (InterMap)

Configurable by the administrator or defined in the Site.InterMap? page.

Groups and hierarchy

One level only, handles menus and styling by groups, see Wiki architecture

Categories

Organise and find related pages with special Category markup.

Navigation trails

Allow wiki authors to create "trails" through sequences of pages in the wiki.

Search tools

Search the entire site or the current group. Administrator may exclude pages from appearing in search results. Pre-defined searches are also available.

Email-notification of revised pages

Option, by admin, site based

Web Feeds

Optional RSS, Atom, and Dublin Core syndication feeds as well as feed links to enable autodiscovery of the feeds

Podcasting

Web feed enclosures are supported.

International versions

See Other languages. Handles accented characters and UTF-8.

Page renaming

addon

Forms

Forms may be embedded in wiki pages.

Site Map

Available via the pagelists? directive.

Backlinks

Available since version 2.0.beta33

LAYOUT

Skins

By admin, can be table or CSS based, addon for switching by users and interactive configuration

Layout modifications

By admin and by user, see group headers

Printable layout

Suppress menu, make link list and miscellaneous reformatting

Style and custom markup

Tables

Tables and Table Directives

Page table of contents

Addon - see also numbered headers

Inclusion? in page

Of others page (part or complete)

Anchors?

In same or other page

User uploaded attachments

Option to set

:'''Images resizing and galleries''' : By addons, see also the category images

In browser drawing edit

By addon, need java enabled on browser.

User preferences

Option. See also the SkinChange add-on.

HTML DETAILS

Handles HTML meta informations

Keywords? (site, group or page based), automatic noindex, nofollow for utility pages

HTML compatibility

XHTML 1.0 transitional, may differ for miscellaneous skins

allow embedding of html in wiki pages

Cookbook:enable HTML

Browser caching

Option

Nice URLs

See also $EnablePathInfo in LayoutVariables

Hide e-mail addresses?

Addon

MISCELLANEOUS ADDONS

Calendar

Each date becomes a wiki page. There are two possible implementations: WikiCalendar and PmCalendar

Latex in Wiki

Publish trails

Forum

There are 2 addons: Forum and SimpleForum

Guestbook

For the full list ...

See the Cookbook recipes.

ADMINISTRATION DETAILS

Wiki farms

To have multiple wikis with a single installation of the wiki engine

Missing and orphan pages search

Option - You can also list orphan and missing attachments (addon)

Handling of features requests and bug reports

LACKING (YET)

allow php scripts inside wiki

like gunther.sf.net does - nah, too much of a security issue. A recipe for that is easy to implement... but who would be crazy enough to do it? ;)

Publish as static pages

Could be done, once we figure out how to control the caching; probably a set of recipes for specific types of wikis

E-mail notification by page

Easy: just enable Notify in the local/config of the page(s) you want to monitor.

Interactive table editor

If that means WYSIWYG-style editors, pmwiki's not the answer. At least currently.

Elements which are not listed as features and are a strength of PmWiki :

• Small code base (under 1 MB)
• A lot of parameters are handled by pages, without having the need to open system files, which greatly helps the Wiki administration.
• While there is only one major developer, there is a very active community and most addons are from independent people.

Add a new feature you would like to see in PmWiki as a new PITS? entry marked Feature Request, or use one of the mailing lists to brainstorm new features.