How to simplify the given RedBeanPHP code?

Question

PHP

This code takes data from the form and saves it to the database through a bean in RedBeanPHP. The input names match the bean elements (and hence the fields in the database table).

$GLOBALS['employee']->first_name = $_POST['main']['first_name'];
      $GLOBALS['employee']->last_name = $_POST['main']['last_name'];
      $GLOBALS['employee']->patronymic = $_POST['main']['patronymic'];
      R::store( $GLOBALS['employee']);

Can it be made easier? It’s just that if I have 50 fields in the form, or there will be a lot of forms, for example, then manually prescribe all this, the work is not productive.

Answer 1

You create an entity, write all the properties in it by the names of the table fields, create a magic setter, accept the post array, run through the loop, get the data that came in, set it, save it. Of course, between all this you do checks for null.