jQuery's serialize() function only returns the last selected checkbox value and not all of them!

$('form').serialize();

<label>Check what applies:</label>
Laptop Owner: <input type="checkbox" name="applicable" value="laptop owner" /> <br />
Samsung Tv Lover: <input type="checkbox" name="applicable" value="Samsumg tv lover" /> <br />
Animae Watcher: <input type="checkbox" name="applicable" value="Ani开发者_JAVA百科mae watcher" />

If I check "Laptop Owner" and "Animae Watcher" is only returns the latter, why? I need it to return both.

EDIT

I should say when I send the forms values to PHP it only returns the last checked checkbox, this is what my php looks like:

<?php

echo $_POST['applicable'].' says PHP';

?>

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change name="applicable" to name="applicable[]"

<?php
print_r( $_POST['applicable'] );
?>

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When $('form').serialize() is called it finds every input-textarea-select element inside the form tag and merge them with their name...

I am not sure how you have called .serialize() function so can't say anything because I have tested your code in my pc placing it inside a form element and it just work fine.

You better check JQuery documentation on this function: http://api.jquery.com/serialize/