Dynamic autoload.php (how to get values from database?)

[eluser]koniciwa[/eluser]
Facing a situation now where I need to allow users to customize the loaded libraries from autoload. These values are stored in the database. The problem is that the database is only loaded after processing the autoload.php file and not before, leaving me with mysql_query() to do the task of retrieving from database. I'm just wondering if there's a better way to do this?

Thanks