What is the right way to handle $_POST data in MVC?

Question

I have the common MVC situation in my PHP system: the Controller receive a request from the View containing $_POST data. Now I have th

Answer 1

Look at some MVC frameworks.

For example, in Yii you can write such code inside action:

$model = new Model();
if(isset($_POST['Model'])) {
    $model->attributes = $_POST['Model'];
}

Note, that all attributes of your model must be passed through validation rules. In Yii validation applies during (actually, before) $model->save()

See:

1. http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/form.model#securing-attribute-assignments
2. http://www.yiiframework.com/doc/guide/1.1/en/basics.mvc