its template toolkit, it just declares a header file

Variable don't "decalare a header file", whatever that means.

For $html_template->process to work, $html_template needs to reference either a package name or an object. Guessing from param, I bet it's the former. What's in that package? We can't debug code we don't see! (Unless the problem is that $session doesn't really contain something like 00-0000000000-00000000 as you say.)

line three says my $html_template!

from base.pm:

sub cgiapp_init {
  my $self=shift;

  $self->param('html_template',
                   Template->new({
                           INCLUDE_PATH => $INCLUDE_PATH,
                           WRAPPER => 'wrapper'}));
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wrapper is === to header file, just bad grammer, i apologize
Barry Carlyon barry@barrycarlyon.co.uk