you can usse the cart conditional total to return the quantity of an item with a specific recID.for example, to look up the cart quantity where recID is "22" you could use this code:
$yourCartName->ConditionalTotal("Quantity", "recID", "22")
where yourCartName is the name of your cart object.

I think I understand this one; what I need is something like this:
$query = mysql_query('UPDATE books SET purchaseDate = '.$now.' WHERE recID = '<a value in any of the recID fields in the cart object>); 
Does that make sense??


