Pulling variables from $_POST

Ok guys, haven't touched PHP in a while, and I just picked up an old project I started awhile back. (prior to the 4.1.x default of register_globals off). I've been familiarizing myself with ways to redo some things in my old scripts, but I've run into a block (probably just a mind block) and was hoping someone can help. I'm taking form data and entering into my db. My old query was this: $query = "update table set Name = '$Name', Email = '$Email', Phone = '$Phone', Fax = '$Fax', Notes = '$Notes' where ID = '$id'"; My new query is this: $query = "update table set Name = " . $_POST["Name"] . " , Email = " . $_POST["Email"] . " , Phone = " . $_POST["Phone"] . " , Fax = " . $_POST["Fax"] . " , Notes = " . $_POST["Notes"] . " where ID = " . $_POST["id"]; Now that I've gotten this far, I'm not looking forward to redoing all my other queries, nor typing all that crap in for each new query. So my question is; is there a way to pull the $_POST data into an array or some how reassign it to the original variables like so "$Name = $_POST["Name"]" but without doing that manually. I'm sure there is some sort of loop or other way of expanding that data, but this is my first day back and I'm at wit's end. More than happy to read and explanation if someone has a quick link, rather than typing a full explanation here. Thanks for your time.