It began as a clone of WikiWikiWeb and was the first wiki written in PHP.

[1] PhpWiki has been used to edit and format paper books for publication.

[3] In early 2000 Arno Hollosi added a second database library to allow running PhpWiki on MySQL.

[5] Jeff Dairiki was the next major contributor, and soon headed the project for the next few years, followed up by Reini Urban up to 1.4, and then Marc-Etienne Vargenau since 1.5.

With version 1.4.0 Wikicreole 1.0 including additions and MediaWiki markup syntax are supported.