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Is there a need for the 'value' attribute, since the POST array will have the 'name' if it was checked on page submission (otherwise it wouldn't be there)?
checked is a HTML parameter, it allows you to decide whether the checkbox should be checked by default. It has nothing to do with passing the state to PHP.