wich contains a list of students on the left and a lot of skills to assign to each student.
Each student have it´s own table with the full skill list (HTML, CSS, ...). Now whats a simple way to get value from the checkboxes and assign them to the corresponding student table?
The purpose is to creating a graph for each student showing their skillset :-) ah, sorry for my poor english.
Print the form using a scripting language like PHP. Use a smart naming for checkboxes, then put the logic to retrieve data in the script that receive the post form.
If you use php, u can use
<form>
<input type="checkbox" name="paul[skill1]" value=1>
<input type="checkbox" name="paul[skill2]" value=1>
...
<input type="checkbox" name="robert[skill1]" value=1>
<input type="checkbox" name="robert[skill2]" value=1>
...
</form>
when submitting the page, the $_POST result will be
$POST = array(
[paul] = array( [skill1]=> 1, [skill3]=>1) //paul has skills 1 and 3
[robert] = array( [skill1]=> 1, [skill4]=>1) //paul has skills 1 and 4
)
if you want to do it everything on the frontend, you should use JQuery, but than managing data it's more difficult. I suppose you have PHP skills, otherwise use a Spreadsheet to do this