live records

Hey all, Been working on this nearly the whole night so i dont really know if this is all that hard or am just braindead. Heres what i am doing: I am reading off an array from the users cookie called "user_cookie" the array is a bunch of numbers like this: 254 7785 5899 540055 etc the numbers are the cart items the user has saved and they match a "item_number" field in my mysql db, the arrays name is $cart_arr what i am doing is running a select * from my_db where item_number=x and item_number=x etc based on the items stored in the array, this info will be displayed in a neat little table when he clicks on "show items in my cart" or something as such...so far so good, heres my problem: sometimes items get deleted or are taken off the "active" list, when this happens I would like to take out these times from $cart_arr....how do i do that? eg: user has these items in his cart ($cart_arr): 1 2 3 4 Item number 3 has been taken taken off the active list, so $cart_arr should now contain only 1 2 4 Thanks in advance, Ryan -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.308 / Virus Database: 266.8.3 - Release Date: 3/25/2005