Total summary cart, add number of items | Get number of items in the cart

Question

I want to add "Total Items" row to display current amount of items in the cart.

Something like this:

How can I display the $_cartQty in this summary section?

Answer 1

If you want to edit app\design\frontend\THEME\PACKAGE\template\checkout\cart\totals.phtml, you can use

<?php echo $this->getQuote()->getItemsSummaryQty(); ?>

Answer 2

This might help you:

$items = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote()->getAllItems();  
foreach ($items as $item) {  
    echo 'Product Quantity: '.$item->getQty();
}

OR

echo Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getCart()->getItemsCount();

OR

$count = Mage::helper('checkout/cart')->getSummaryCount();  //get total items in cart