in reply to importing functions with "PerlModule" Apache directive

PerlModule is equivalent to require. For example:
#!usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; require Apache::DBI; require DBI; require CGI;
In your conf:
PerlModule Apache::DBI DBI CGI
Note that require is for "after" configuration. To use your modules at startup, use PerlLoadModule:
PerlLoadModule Apache::DBI DBI CGI