In a new post to his blog today Asvin Balloo has posted ten useful PEAR packages (just some out of a long list) that can help you with everything from database access to creating Excel spreadsheets.

His list of ten is made up of:

• MDB2 (database access)
• Text_CAPTCHA
• Log
• LiveUser
• Translation2
• Validate
• Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer
• Net_GeoIP
• File_Archive
• XML_Serializer

For most of them he also includes links to tutorials showing how to use them and with more info about them.