Saving Checkboxes

I want to have Checkboxes next to text on my site for users to tick if they have obtained a certain item so I was trying to find tutorials on doing this with PHP and saving in MySQL so I could try tie it to a user had no luck with finding a tutorial on that and I already searched for a plugin but no luck.

I tried out “<input name=”AWJAS” type=”checkbox” value=”true” />” and was just wondering if there was a way I could have each input name save to a user so the site always knows if its been checked or not when they login.

Thanks for any help.