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That’s a good approach. You need to pass $required into the function (vars outside are not available inside). Also, once you’re done, you need to return true (otherwise, it would be difficult to tell whether everything passed the test or not).

function validate_required( $required,$input ){
    foreach( $required as $name ){
        if( empty( $input[$name] ) ){ return false; }
        return true;
    }
}

usage:

$required = ['name','email'];
$allGood = validate_required( $required,$_POST );
if( $allGood ){ /*  good job!  */ }
else{ /*  you forgot some.  */ }

You might also be interested in examining how we implemented form validation here.