[ILUG] PHP/mysql content management system

[John Allman]

Hi - i'm looking around at the shockingly large number of open source 
content management systems out there and i'm being very put off as i 
really dont know which one would suit me best.

i know what i want and what i dont need. can anyone suggest something 
which might cover these?

I want:
* it to be completely in php with a database backend. at least mysql 
(but with the current rumblings about the new licence it would be nice 
if it had support for another database as well. postgres maybe). really 
dont want to hear about perl or java or python solutions.
* A nice modular clean codebase.
* An active community using it for support and help
* Forums integrated into the system.
* more than just news. an ability to make reasonably static sections if 
need be. news seperate from articles maybe? and articles broken down 
into sections?
* the theme/look and feel to be editable. css-based and easy to 
understand when it comes to altering
* fairly lightweight.
* It to be in english. I dont want to have to go around the backoffice 
trying to work out what the hell each thing translates as.
* a fairly mature project that isn't going to keep drastically changing 
all the time and which i can rely on to have most of the nastier bugs 
discovered and patched by now

I dont need:
* users to be able to select their own theme. In fact if this is 
possible with the cms i go with, i want to be able to disable it
* a wysiwyg editor. I dont care about a nice backend for altering the 
look of the site. i'm happy to play with css.
* too intensive a backoffice for administration. i'm happy to play with 
configuration files

I've looked at opensourcecms.com and cmsinfo.org and although they've 
been helpful, what i'd really want would be a nice board showing which 
cms systems have what features. since neither have that i thought i'd 
throw it out for advice from the collective wisdom that is ilug

thanks

John

PS: i've probably forgotten something fairly important in the above 
list. if there is anything else i should probably be aware of in 
choosing, please advise