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.

 <?php $cartQty = $this->getSummaryCount() ?>
    <?php if ($cartQty>0): ?>

            <?php if ($cartQty==1): ?>
                <?php echo $this->__('<a class="cartgo" href="%s">(1 ITEM)</a>', $this->getUrl('checkout/cart')) ?>
            <?php else: ?>
                <?php echo $this->__('<a class="cartgo" href="%s">(%s ITEMS)</a>', $this->getUrl('checkout/cart')) ?>
            <?php endif ?>


    <?php endif ?>

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.

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

Answer 2

<?php
    $cartTotal = $this->helper('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal();
    $cartItemsCount = Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getCart()->getItemsCount();
    $cartSuffix = ($cartItemsCount != 1) ? 's' : '';

    echo '<a class="cartgo" href="'.$this->getUrl('checkout/cart').'">
              <strong>'.$this->__('Your basket').'</strong><br />'.
              $this->__('(%s) Item%s', $cartItemsCount, $cartSuffix).
              '<span>[$'.$this->helper('core')->formatPrice($cartTotal, false).']</span>
          </a>';
?>

Output:

Your basket
3 Items [$32.5]