<input type="text" name="required[first_name]" />
<input type="text" name="required[last_name]" />
...
$required = $_POST['required'];
foreach ($required as $req) {
$req = trim($req);
if (empty($req))
echo 'gotcha!';
}
/* update */
OK! guys, easy...
You can make it more secure, just with type casting as all we programmers do for out coming data, like $id = (int) $_GET['id']
, like $username = (string) addslashes($_POST['username'])
and so on...;
$required = (array) $_POST['required'];
And then, what ever comes from post fields let them come, this code just seek what it need.
That is it! Uhh...