main_script: ============ use strict; use warnings; ... ... use lib '/home/hosting/foo.bar/public_html/libs/perl'; use OpenSubtitles::Help; ... ( $i->{FileName} ) = $dbh->selectrow_array(qq{ select SubFileName from subs_subtitle_file a left join subs_subtitle b on a.SubtitleID = b.IDSubtitle where IDSubtitleFile = ? }, {}, $i->{IDSubtitleFile}); module_script: ============== package OpenSubtitles::Help; use strict; use warnings; use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT @EXPORT_OK %EXPORT_TAGS $VERSION); use Exporter; use DBI; $VERSION = 1.00; @ISA = ('Exporter'); @EXPORT = qw( $dbh get_user ); #db connect our $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:database=sub;host=localhost;port=3306", "foo", "bar", { AutoCommit => 1, RaiseError => 1, }) or die "Can't connect: ", $DBI::errstr; ... 1;