PhpWiki

PhpWiki is a free clone of the original WikiWikiWeb software, which allows you to create sites whose contents can be edited by any visitor.

Operation

All pages are stored in a DBMS and linked dynamically. With this setup, you can update and create pages from anywhere you have a web browser available.

A web wiki is meant to offer collaborations, conversations and documentation all at the same time.

PhpWiki is written in the PHP server language. PHP resembles C and Perl in its syntax, and works very much like ASP, EmbPerl, or JSP.

PhpWiki consists of about a dozen mixed PHP and HTML files. The web pages of a WikiWikiWeb that are built in PHP reside in a database file with backup copies of previous versions stored in a second file.

Every time the user clicks on the website, the requested page is fetched from the database and rendered on the fly. The user only requests the index.php file, where it is decided what other PHP files should be included.

Links to "wiki" they are generated automatically. This may be the most important aspect of a wiki, the ability to add pages that link to.