Below is only a small list of the features and functionality provided by FUSE.

• Object Relational Mapping
  • Create entire applications without writing any SQL queries
  • create quick, easy, customizable data access controllers in minutes
  • FuseDataModel object can be used to create fully functional scaffolding for add/edit/delete/list/view operations with only a few lines of code
• Model-View-Controller architecture
  • allows for separation of back-end code and front-end presentation
• Fully featured templating system
• Fully separate PHP and HTML
• Change layouts on the fly (e.g. user-facing or administrator-facing)
• Templates cached as inline PHP for maximum performance
• Builtin User object
• Login authentication
• Fine tune permissions and restrictions by individual user or group membership
• Easily manage access to controller methods with only a few lines of code
• File management functions (e.g. require_class(), require_model()) allow included files to be easily managed, and such files can even be moved without changes to existing code
• URI Router removes the need for ugly URIs and often eliminates the need for query strings
• Database abstraction layer (FuseDB) allows for portability among different database systems
• FuseBRIJ object allows PHP functions to be executed directly from Javascript, providing AJAX functionality
• Photo Album object allows simple management of photos alongside data