hi all, I managed to get this little snippet working, it's pretty useful if you have long forms to be inserted into a database.
if ( ! empty ( $_POST ) ){
array_pop($_POST);
 foreach($_POST as $key => $val){
  $columns .= addslashes($key) . ", ";
    $values .= "'" . addslashes($val) . "', ";
 }
 $values = substr_replace($values, "", -2);
 $columns = substr_replace($columns, "", -2);
 $sql = "INSERT INTO table ($columns) VALUES ($values)";
 echo $sql;
 $results = odbc_exec($conn, $sql);
                 if ($results){
              echo "Query Executed";
                }else {
              echo "Query failed " .odbc_error();
            }    
}
Not the most secure in the world but, speeds up collecting data from large forms.