Magento cart / session data outside magento

Question

This might get a little confusing as I have tried everything to make this work. All I want is a link in my brand site (domain.com) which shows the qty in my magento 1.5.1 cart (

Answer 1

I copied your code and tested it on Magento 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7.
I placed the code in a PHP file called test.php in the Magento root directory. This is the code I used:

umask(0);
require_once 'app/Mage.php';
Mage::app();

Mage::getSingleton('core/session', array('name'=>'frontend'));

var_dump(array(
    "Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->getItemsCount()" =>
    Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart')->getItemsCount()
)); // returns number of items (w/o qty)
var_dump(array(
    "Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getSummaryCount()" =>
        Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getSummaryCount()
)); // returns number according to configuration
var_dump(array(
    "Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()" =>
    Mage::getSingleton('customer/session')->isLoggedIn()
)); // returns bool true|false

The Magento instances use the local test host names magento15.dev, magento16.dev and magento17.dev.

The I requested the corresponding Magento instances and placed a product in the cart (tested with a configurable and a simple product), and then updated the quantity of the product in the cart.

Between each step I reloaded the test.php file in the browser.
The result is always the same: it works as expected. Each call returns the same values as on the Magento site.

So this means your code is correct, it might be your domain and/or setup (is the browser sending the Magento frontend cookie when you request your test script)?