Node Express Jade - Checkbox boolean value

Question

I\'m using Node+Express+Jade to render some webpages. On a form there are 2 checkboxes. When the form is submitted through POST, if the checkbox is checked, I get req.

Answer 1

I was working through this recently for a project...

Here is the form :

form(action='/survey/submission/test/config', method='post')
    input(type="checkbox", name="1")
    input(type="checkbox", name="2")
    input(type="checkbox", name="3")
    input(type="submit")

then in the node javascript they can be found through the req.body.name of each. req.body.name will return 'on' if one of the boxes if checked. if a box is not checked, they are undefined. so a ternary statement can be used to create a new object and save them to a db as a boolean value.

object = {
    first: req.body.1 ? true : false,
    second: req.body.2 ? true : false,
    third: req.body.3 ? true : false
};

Hope this helps anyone else coming along. I was happy once I figured it out