I think that this is the route I am going to take. I am currently reading the Perl Template Toolkit By Darren Chamberlain, David Cross and Andy Wardley. It looks very cool. I am looking at the Template::Plugin::Apache::SessionManager too. My question about this is can this be used for session management for logged in users, etc? I am going to keep reading and start a search on google but I was wondering how you (or anyone else) was taking care of authentication with TT.