checkboxes names & values in mySQL (newbie)

I'm new at using PHP and mySQL, so please forgive my potentially naive question. I have a series of checkboxes with different values. The user can select any number of checkboxes, and I need to store this information in a mySQL table. 2 questions: Should I have a unique form name for each checkbox, and store it's boolean value in the database, OR (is it more streamlined) .. To create an array <input type=checkbox name=apps value =myarray[$i]> with the same name but different value for each checkbox. Finally, how do I construct the query to store the array of values? Do I need a separate column (enum('n','y') for each value, or should I store all the true values as a long text string? If anyone has some code snippets, that would help very much. Thanks very much!