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This is Future Perfect in English, hence the name Prophetic Perfect Tense, I guess.

It is also not that similar, since PPT is speaking about events in the future in past tense as if they have already happened and Future Perfect/Futur II uses "will": "I will have finished my homework by tomorrow."

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That's a good point, there is no will there, didn't even think about it.

I assumed from the title that it was the same as FP.

But you seemto contradict yourself; you say that PPT is FP, and then say that "it is not that similar"; they can't be the same thing, and yet dissimilar.

The GP is ambiguous but I presume that they meant the Futur II in German is the same as future perfect tense in English, and neither is the same as the prophetic perfect tense.

OIC, maybe that makes sense. But I can't really tell, because the WP article didn't enlighten me.

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