What best practices should be followed when dealing with multiple checkbox values in PHP?

When dealing with multiple checkbox values in PHP, it is best practice to use an array to store the selected values. This allows you to easily loop through the array and process each selected value accordingly. Additionally, you should ensure that the checkbox inputs are named with square brackets at the end (e.g. name="checkbox[]") to automatically create an array of values in the $_POST or $_GET superglobals. 

// Example HTML form with multiple checkboxes
<form method="post">
    <input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[]" value="option1"> Option 1
    <input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[]" value="option2"> Option 2
    <input type="checkbox" name="checkbox[]" value="option3"> Option 3
    <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</form>

// PHP code to process selected checkbox values
if(isset($_POST['submit'])) {
    if(isset($_POST['checkbox'])) {
        $selectedValues = $_POST['checkbox'];
        foreach($selectedValues as $value) {
            // Process each selected checkbox value here
            echo $value . "<br>";
        }
    }
}

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