Sometimes in magento our client want magento cart items quantity and price on header. Recently I have experienced it and solve it. Now you can easily do this just following the below step:
First step:
To do this, first you need to edit header.phtml which is located on
app/design/frontend/your-instance-name/your-theme-name/template/page/html/header.phtml
If it not located there, then you can find it on this following location:
app/design/frontend/base/default/template/page/html/header.phtml
Now paste the below code where you need to show the magento cart items quantity and price.
<?php
$count = $this->helper('checkout/cart')->getSummaryCount(); //get total items in cart
if($count==0)
{
echo $this->__('<div><div></div><p><span>0</span> items</p></div>',$count);
}
if($count==1)
{
echo $this->__('<div><div></div><a href="/checkout/cart"><p><span>1</span> item</p></a></div>',$count);
}
if($count>1)
{
echo $this->__('<a href="/checkout/cart"><div><div></div><a href="/checkout/cart"><p><span>%s</span> items</p></a></div>',$count);
}
?>
<strong><?php echo Mage::helper('checkout')->formatPrice(Mage::getModel('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal()) ?></strong>Now check your site header, the magento cart items quantity and price are showing. Then apply CSS and give the look as you want.
