Magento How to check if the shopping cart is empty or not?

Question

I am trying to check if the shopping cart is empty or not. I am trying to do this from a static block and from a phtml file.

Anyone know how to do this?

Well i tried $this->getOrders(); But of course then i would have to extend from History.php. But in the toplinks i want to display 'Shoppingbag' when it's empty. and when it is not empty: 'Shopping bag(3) | Order now'. (if there are three items in the shopping bag.) Well i don't think my code would be of any help here. :P — Wesley Smits, Oct 08 '12 at 09:54
Go to the Question you have asked and mark your Questions as solved if they are correct. — René Höhle, Oct 08 '12 at 09:57

score 33 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 23 '19 at 16:59

33

I was able to find the total count of items in the shopping cart using the following code:

$totalItemsInCart = Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getItemsCount();

If it does not work, let me know.

edited Aug 23 '19 at 16:59

joeybab3

answered Oct 08 '12 at 10:43

Mukesh

2

Ah thanks this did the trick for me :) I would upvote you but my reputation is too low.. – Wesley Smits Oct 08 '12 at 11:25
How can i find if cart has selected category of products? I have category id's how can i check if cart has selected categories of products? @Mukesh – Gem Aug 05 '19 at 04:56

Cj Belo · Answer 2 · 2013-08-14T19:33:01.830

4

You can try this.

$cart_qty = (int) Mage::getModel('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getItemsQty();

if($cart_qty) {
    // Not empty.
} else {
    // Empty.
}

edited Aug 14 '13 at 19:33

answered May 13 '13 at 14:50

Cj Belo

Why we put (int) may i know the reason? @Cj Belo thanks – Gem Aug 03 '19 at 06:38
To force the return data to be an integer. If the method returned "1" then it will be converted to 1. – Cj Belo Aug 29 '19 at 15:38
Thank you and one more if not using INT may i know what is the error shown? @Cj Belo – Gem Aug 30 '19 at 04:41
1

If you're not gonna put (int) it's still okay. It will still return a data. – Cj Belo Aug 30 '19 at 05:27

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 08 '12 at 09:59

3

I think this could help:

You can try something like this:

$checkout_cart = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart');
$items = $checkout_cart->getItems();

answered Oct 08 '12 at 09:59

René Höhle

Ah i tried your code but for some reason it kept giving me an empty array. – Wesley Smits Oct 08 '12 at 11:25

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