Hi, I've been messing around with the AUTOLOAD, specifically, loading subs from a database table. Everything's going fine, except for the past few week's i've been trying to add the ability to have mulitiple methods stored in the database, depending on how the method is called. I.e, as an instance $blah->hello(); or straight from the module Blah::hello(); I think that there's the third way of calling the sub from inside another database loaded sub with just hello(); How on earth can I detect how the function has been called from within the AUTOLOAD function? I know I can use ref() to check the first value of @_ to differentiate between $blah->hello() and Blah::hello(), but i'm having a mental block trying to work out what would happen if the function was called from an instance method, but passed an instance as the first parameter? Maybe this doesnt make sense and i've just been thinking about it for far too long, but if you can help, i'd be most grateful. The code's below. Thanks, Stephen 
sub AUTOLOAD {
    my $self  = shift;
    my $type = ref($self) || $self;
    
    
    return if $AUTOLOAD =~ /::DESTROY$/;

    my $name = $AUTOLOAD;
    $name =~ s/.*://;

    my $dbh = BSN::DB::connect();
    my $sql = "select * from method_tbl where name='".$name."' and typ
+e='".$self->{_type}."'";
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    $sth->execute();
    my $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();
    unless (exists $ref->{body}) {
        $sql = "select * from method_tbl where name='".$name."' and ty
+pe='Default'";
        $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
        $sth->execute();
        $ref = $sth->fetchrow_hashref();
        unless (exists $ref->{body}) {
            return "Can't access `$name' method in class ".$self->{_ty
+pe};
        }
    }
    
    
    my $call = eval("$ref->{body}");
    if ($@) {
        croak "Method Error: $@ in method `$name' in class $type";
    }
        
    unshift @_,$self;
    goto &$call;
}

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