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+####################
+CodeIgniter Features
+####################
+
+Features in and of themselves are a very poor way to judge an
+application since they tell you nothing about the user experience, or
+how intuitively or intelligently it is designed. Features don't reveal
+anything about the quality of the code, or the performance, or the
+attention to detail, or security practices. The only way to really judge
+an app is to try it and get to know the code.
+`Installing <../installation/>`_ CodeIgniter is child's play so we
+encourage you to do just that. In the mean time here's a list of
+CodeIgniter's main features.
+
+-  Model-View-Controller Based System
+-  Extremely Light Weight
+-  Full Featured database classes with support for several platforms.
+-  Active Record Database Support
+-  Form and Data Validation
+-  Security and XSS Filtering
+-  Session Management
+-  Email Sending Class. Supports Attachments, HTML/Text email, multiple
+   protocols (sendmail, SMTP, and Mail) and more.
+-  Image Manipulation Library (cropping, resizing, rotating, etc.).
+   Supports GD, ImageMagick, and NetPBM
+-  File Uploading Class
+-  FTP Class
+-  Localization
+-  Pagination
+-  Data Encryption
+-  Benchmarking
+-  Full Page Caching
+-  Error Logging
+-  Application Profiling
+-  Calendaring Class
+-  User Agent Class
+-  Zip Encoding Class
+-  Template Engine Class
+-  Trackback Class
+-  XML-RPC Library
+-  Unit Testing Class
+-  Search-engine Friendly URLs
+-  Flexible URI Routing
+-  Support for Hooks and Class Extensions
+-  Large library of "helper" functions
+