How do I get the values of all selected checkboxes in a Django request.POST?

Question

Hi I have an array of checkboxes e.g.

<input type="checkbox" name="checks[]" value="1" /> <input type="checkbox" name="checks[]" value="2" /> <input type="checkbox" name="checks[]" value="3" /> <input type="checkbox" name="checks[]" value="4" /> 

How do I access these in the view.py if more than one is selected?

I have tried

request.POST['checks'] 

but that only gives me the last value. What I want is all the ones that have been selected in a list e.g. 1,3,4

Thanks

Answer 1

Try this:

some_var = request.POST.getlist('checks') 

some_var will contain [1,3,4] (those values that were checked)