Magento - How to get cart items total in header.phtml

Question

I am using Magento eCommerce and I have modified my header.phtml via the Blank template. Code, this is my code but it shows blank.

Answer 1

There was an answer to a link before by someone called SUHUR I think, I was going to reward him with the answer but it seems he deleted his own post?

He linked to this: http://nothingtopost.wordpress.com/tag/how-to-get-total-cart-item-in-magento/

I modified my code and this works now on .phtml files.

helper('checkout/cart')->getSummaryCount();  //get total items in cart
      $total = $this->helper('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal(); //get total price
      if($count==0)
      {
        echo $this->__('(0 ITEMS)',$count);
      }
      if($count==1)
      {
        echo $this->__('(1 ITEM)',$count);
      }
      if($count>1)
      {
        echo $this->__('(%s ITMES)',$count);
      }
      echo $this->__('', $this->helper('core')->formatPrice($total, false));
    ?>