How to show count items in cart in header Open Cart?

Question

I need to show count of items in cart in Header.

I tried to edit header.php file as:

$products = $this->cart->getProducts();
$data['total'] = count($products);

And after to display this in template header.tpl:

<?php echo $total?>

Answer 1

Your code should work, but you can also use command $this->cart->countProducts()