Can anyone help me how to read the value from the checkbox to display it in a pdf.I am having a form with name,age,prefernce etc. I have a checkbox for preference. When user clicks on submit the entered or selected value as to display in a pdf.I have only problem with the checkbox. It reads on a single value from the form.It as to read multiple values from the checkbox.Please help me out as I m new to tcpdf. Here is my code.This code reads only the last selected value from the checkbox. Please help me out.

php code

<script type="text/javascript">

        $("#Submit").click(function(){
           $('input[name=per]').click(function(){
    $('input[name=per]').removeAttr('checked');
    $(this).attr('checked', true);

});
    document.getElementById("Form").submit();
        });

    </script>


    <form name="Form" id="Form" method="POST" action="pdf/pdf.php">


        <input type="checkbox" name="per" value="bike">bike<br/>
<input type="checkbox" name="per" value="car">Car<br/>
<input type="checkbox" name="per" value="bus">bus<br/>
<input type="hidden" name="formType" id="formType" value="veh" />
            <input type="button" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit" class="formButton" />
        </div>

        </form></div>


pdf code

require_once('tcpdf_include.php');

// create new PDF document
$pdf = new TCPDF(PDF_PAGE_ORIENTATION, PDF_UNIT, PDF_PAGE_FORMAT, true, 'UTF-8', false);

// set document information
$pdf->SetCreator(PDF_CREATOR);
$pdf->SetAuthor('S');
$pdf->SetTitle('S');
$pdf->SetSubject('S');
$pdf->SetKeywords('S');

// set default header data
$pdf->SetHeaderData(PDF_HEADER_LOGO, PDF_HEADER_LOGO_WIDTH, PDF_HEADER_TITLE, PDF_HEADER_STRING);

// set header and footer fonts
$pdf->setHeaderFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_MAIN, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_MAIN));
$pdf->setFooterFont(Array(PDF_FONT_NAME_DATA, '', PDF_FONT_SIZE_DATA));

// set default monospaced font
$pdf->SetDefaultMonospacedFont(PDF_FONT_MONOSPACED);

// set margins
$pdf->SetMargins(PDF_MARGIN_LEFT, PDF_MARGIN_TOP, PDF_MARGIN_RIGHT);
$pdf->SetHeaderMargin(PDF_MARGIN_HEADER);
$pdf->SetFooterMargin(PDF_MARGIN_FOOTER);

// set auto page breaks
$pdf->SetAutoPageBreak(TRUE, PDF_MARGIN_BOTTOM);

// set image scale factor
$pdf->setImageScale(PDF_IMAGE_SCALE_RATIO);

// set some language-dependent strings (optional)
if (@file_exists(dirname(__FILE__).'/lang/eng.php')) {
    require_once(dirname(__FILE__).'/lang/eng.php');
    $pdf->setLanguageArray($l);
}


$cper="";
if($_REQUEST["formType"] == "veh") {
$cper=$_REQUEST["cper"]; 

}
$username = "root";
$password = "";
$hostname = "localhost"; 
$db = "mun";
//connection to the database
$dbhandle = mysql_connect($hostname, $username, $password) or die("Unable to connect to MySQL");
mysql_select_db($db,$dbhandle) or die('cannot select db');
mysql_query("INSERT INTO sjbhsmun1 (Name, age, grade, city, email,mobile, cper, choice1,choice2,choice3) 
                VALUES('$Name','$age','$per') ") or die(mysql_error());

----------------
--------

<tr>

                                        <td width="40%" style="border: 1px solid #ccc;">Preferences</td>
                                        <td width="60%" style="border: 1px solid #ccc;">';

    $html .= $per;
</tr>

the problem is <input type="checkbox <=(here)" name="per" value="car">Car<br/>
make it dynaimc by creating checkboxs array. like
<input type="checkbox" name="myCheckboxes[]" id="myCheckboxes" value="someValue1" />
<input type="checkbox" name="myCheckboxes[]" id="myCheckboxes" value="someValue2" />
...(maybe some more checkboxes - dynamically generated as necessary)
Get Values of Each Checkbox:

  var myCheckboxes = new Array();
    $("input:checked").each(function() {
       data['myCheckboxes[]'].push($(this).val());
    });

And PHP:

<?php 

$myField = htmlspecialchars( $_POST['myField'] ) );
if( isset( $_POST['myCheckboxes'] ) )
{
    for ( $i=0; $i < count( $_POST['myCheckboxes'] ); $i++ )
    {
        // do some stuff, save to database, etc.
    }
}
// create the response
$response = 'an HTML response';
$response = stripslashes($response);
echo($response);

?>
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