im having a metabox in wordpress with a mutliple select form.
adding [] to the name
was correct, however I allso needed to replace the following save line:
update_post_meta( $post_id, 'my_meta_box_select', esc_attr( $_POST['my_meta_box_select'] ) );
with the following:
update_post_meta($post_id, 'my_meta_box_select', array_map( 'strip_tags', $_POST['my_meta_box_select'] ) );
Thanks alot for the assistance Nate!