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

Use the helper object to get the current cart object, and then count the number of items in the cart object.

echo Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getCart()->getItemsCount();

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