I have tried eval, system, exec, putting the script to a file and calling the file etc.. Nothing seems to work.. Here is the mod_perl2 module which is loaded into Apache at startup.. The URL I would send in this example is http://someserver/dashboardscripts?name=loop 
package DashboardScripts::DashboardScripts;
# File: DashboardScripts/DashboardScripts.pm

use strict;
use Apache2::RequestRec ();  # for $r->content_type
use Apache2::RequestIO ();   # for $r->puts
use Apache2::Const -compile => qw(OK DECLINED M_GET HTTP_METHOD_NOT_AL
+LOWED);

BEGIN { $| }

use Data::Dumper;

sub handler {
      my $r = shift;
      my $ref;
      my $post;
      #my $host = $r->get_remote_host;
      unless ($r->method_number == Apache2::Const::M_GET) {
            $r->allowed($r->allowed | (1<<Apache2::Const::M_GET));
            return Apache2::Const::DECLINED;
            }

      $r->content_type('text/html');
      
      map {
            $_ =~ s/\+/ /g;
            my ($key, $val) = split(/=/,$_,2);
            foreach ($key, $val) {$_ =~ s/%([A-Fa-f0-9]{2})/pack("c",h
+ex($1))/ge};
            $$ref{$key} .= (defined($ref->{$key})) ? "\0$val" : $val;
      } split/[&;]/,$r->args();

#mysql> desc defaultscripts;
#+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
#| Field    | Type        | Null | Key | Default | Extra |
#+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
#| name     | varchar(25) | NO   | PRI |         |       |
#| script   | text        | YES  |     | NULL    |       |
#+----------+-------------+------+-----+---------+-------+
#2 rows in set (0.01 sec)

      exit Apache2::Const::DECLINED if ($ref->{name} eq "");

      my @Raw_DB_Data;

      my $dbh = DBI->connect("DBI:mysql:dashboards",
                             'id',
                             'passwd',
                            {
                             PrintError => 0, # warn( ) on errors
                             RaiseError => 0, # don't die on error
                             AutoCommit => 1, # commit executes immedi
+ately
                             }
                            );

      my $sql = "SELECT script FROM scripts where name='$ref->{name}'"
+;
      
      my $script;
      
      my $sth = $dbh->prepare("$sql");
      if ($sth->execute) {
                  while(my $row_hash = $sth->fetchrow_hashref) {
                        $script = "$row_hash->{script}";              
+          
                  }
                  $post .= "$script";
                  
                  $post .= eval "$script; 1" or warn $@;

            $sth->finish();
      }
################################################
$r->puts(<<"END");
$post
END
      undef $post;
      undef $r;
      undef $sth;
      undef $dbh;
      return Apache2::Const::OK;
}
  
END { }
1;

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When I pass the URL, I want it to parse the args (works) go to the database and get the perlscript, execute the script and output back to the module to display the results. Sounds simple enough however, it simply is not working.. I have two examples in the database. 
#!c:/perl/bin/perl.exe
use strict;
for(my $x=0; $x<=100000;$x++){
      print "$x<br>";
}

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and 
for(my $x=0; $x<=100000;$x++){
      print "$x<br>";
}

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The above prints the script that it got back from the db just fine. But only returns the 1 after. Ideas on what I might be doing wrong here. Thanks

In reply to Re^2: Executing code stored in a database.. by jbinaustin
in thread Executing code stored in a database.. by jbinaustin

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