Widget development problem with checkboxes

Hi.. i’m trying to write a widget and I need to have multiple checkboxes so that the user can select different options. As the number of the options is dynamic, I can’t name each checkbox differently so what I have is:

<input type="checkbox" name="widget_options[]" value="'.$widget_options['id'].'" />

I’m using:

$defaults = array('widget_options' => "");

to handle these fields, but in the “update” section of my widget where I have:

foreach($new_instance['widget_options'] as $current_option)
{
	if ($current_option == $widget_options['id'])
	{
	    //activates a flag for successfully passing
	}
}

nothing seems to happen. What is the correct syntax of passing such parameters with the widget manager? Can anyone help me figure out the problem?

Thanks beforehand