Question

I want to submit a form that have many checkboxes with different values, using firebug I am sure that the checkboxes values are send to the server, but when I print_r the values of the post variable, only the last value is printed and igoring the other values.

<input type="checkbox"  name="fruits" value="apple" />
<input type="checkbox"  name="fruits" value="orange" />
<input type="checkbox"  name="fruits" value="banana" />

and in the server when I print the request parameters

   $formData = $this->getRequest()->getPost();
    print_r($formData);

Only the last option is printed even I choose all of them and firebug shows them all!

Answer 1

I solve it by making [] in the name of the checkboxex

<input type="checkbox"  name="fruits[]" value="apple" />
<input type="checkbox"  name="fruits[]" value="orange" />
<input type="checkbox"  name="fruits[]" value="banana" />