How to bulk insert with RedBeanPhp?

I was hoping for an example on how to bulk insert new “beans” in readbeanphp without looping over each instance.

It shows an example creating and saving a beans here: http://redbeanphp.com/manual/create_a_bean

It makes mention of storeAll($beans) method, but I am unsure exactly how I am suppose to format the data in $beans.

I have tried googling for this and can not find anything related to bulk inserts. Maybe I have searched for the wrong terms.

I am new to this ORM, any help with would appreciated, thanks!

Answer

You are definitely right on track. Create a new bean using $bean=R::dispense('bean'); or multiple beans as an array $beans=R::dispense('bean',5);

Then you populate the beans with data:

$bean->title='Hello World!';
//or with an array
$beans[0]->title='Hello World!';
$beans[1]->title='Hello World! Bean 1';
//etc

Then store the bean(s):

R::store($bean);
//or
R::storeAll($beans);

All the beans must be the same type if you have multiples as far as I know, so you can do something like:

$beans=array();
$beans[]=R::dispense('bean');
$beans[]=R::dispense('bean');
$beans[0]->title='Hello World!';
$beans[1]->title='Hello World!1';
R::storeAll($beans);

I could be wrong about that though. The main thing is that this is all a typical ORM, but redbean also supports regular SQL if you need to use it. Hope that helps!