$cart global variable

[Ahmadoooo]

Hello everyone,

 

I am a newbie to Prestashop and website programming so the slightest detail will be useful.

 

1- I am trying to use the variable $cart in the main header template to display the total number of items in cart, but it's only working when I am in the shopping cart page.

<span id="itemsCount">{$cart.summary_string}</span>

why is that and how to solve it?

 

2- I designed the website, upto html and css, to have a cart that is available on all pages in which customers can edit anytime anywhere.

 

How to connect it to the $cart in which any update will take effect? Also, should I put the code of this "global cart" in the header in order to have it appear in all pages?

 

Please find attached images that demonstrate what I am trying to accomplish.

 

Any comments are appreciated.

 

Regards,

 

Ahmad

Edited March 30, 2017 by Ahmadoooo (see edit history)

[NemoPS]

Hard to tell, how are you using the html page? Is that integrated as template, correctly?
Prestashop version? I take it as it's 1.7

[Ahmadoooo]

Currently I am in the process of integrating it into a theme. I am using a starter theme with peestashop 1.7

The images are just from the html file not prestashop, just as an illustration of what I am trying to achieve.

Upto now, I have integrated the top navigation menu into /themes/starterTheme/templates/_partials/header.tpl

I used displayTop hook to display main menu which working ok. And displayNav hook to display language and the signin icon.

Edited March 31, 2017 by Ahmadoooo (see edit history)

[Ahmadoooo]

Anyone?

[Ahmadoooo]

Last call?

[Juaners]

Hi!
Try to use {$cart.products_count}. It will show only the number of total products
It worls for me en 1.7 : )