HTML input arrays - w3toppers.com

It’s just PHP, not HTML.

It parses all HTML fields with [] into an array.

So you can have

<input type="checkbox" name="food[]" value="apple" />
<input type="checkbox" name="food[]" value="pear" />

and when submitted, PHP will make $_POST[‘food’] an array, and you can access its elements like so:

echo $_POST['food'][0]; // would output first checkbox selected

or to see all values selected:

foreach( $_POST['food'] as $value ) {
    print $value;
}

Anyhow, don’t think there is a specific name for it