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[wildchief]

Dear Forum,
I am building my first presta shop site here. http://www.crystalwish.co.uk it is going well so far I am planning to go from 3 columns to 2 columns to free up some space and I will need to remove right hand the cart block. I have a going to have a hyper link that has a check out link to order.php?step1 else where in the header to replace the "check out button" i will lose when removing my cart block.

I would however like to only display this hyper link if the cart is not empty. I am thinking the best way to do this would be a small javascript routine that will check if the cart is empty and hide the link if it is empty. Does this seem the most sensible method? If so do I need to read a cookie or something to test the cart is empty or not?

Thank you for reading this

David