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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
+