note hiseldl <P>Here are my favorites: <UL> <LI>[cpan://DBI] - I do a lot of database work, and a lot of times I just need to see if a DB has a table or is available, so I use 'dbish' a lot. It's also a quick way to figure out what DSN's are available on your machine.</LI> <LI>[cpan://CGI] - cgi scripting. :-)</LI> <LI>[cpan://CGI::Application] - more often than not, defining callbacks for actions is a lot easier than straight scripting.</LI> <LI>[cpan://HTML::Template] - use this with [cpan://CGI::Application] for faster web app prototyping.</LI> <LI>[cpan://DBIx::Recordset] - has a nice interface.</LI> <LI>[cpan://HTML::TreeBuilder] - once you wrap your brain around this one, you can scrape data from any web page you want. There's also a module [cpan://HTML::Seamstress] which uses this to create a better HTML template system than [cpan://HTML::Template] (IMHO).</LI> <LI>[cpan://Tk] - sometimes it's nice to have your favorite script with a GUI interface. :-)</LI> </UL> <strong>Update:</strong> Here's another one:<UL><LI>[cpan://CGI::Session] there's a cookbook and some good tutorials for using this module.</LI></UL> I use several others but these seem to be the most used in my arsenal, and I am a frequent surfer of CPAN, always watching out for anything that makes my job easier. </P> <P>Cheers!</P> <P>--<br/>[hiseldl]<br/>What time is it? It's [190308|Camel Time!]</P> 250495 250495