This is a Better cart info in header.
I got tired of searching for the one that I wanted only to find that it didnt work or it was'nt at all like I thought it was.
So I put this together for those who wanted something like I did.
To view what this looks like please go to:
http://mountainviewcandles.com
PLEASE do not make any test orders!!!!
What this does:
This take information that your shopping_cart.php collects from your database and add the text to your header.php file
Looks like:
<b><u>Your Cart Contains:</u></b>
0 Items (also links to the shopping_cart.php)
Sub Total: $0.00(also links to the shopping_cart.php)
There is also a cart image that is displayed and linked to the right of the info. The image is transperent so it will work with all backgrounds.
This can easily be modifed to have all, or some of the text in one line.
I hope this is usefull,
Eric
Legend: 
Download

Report
Update for v1.2:
Added Multilingual.
Instal Instructions and Files are in the attachment.
This just adds 2 additional files so that you can use just the numbers for the items in cart and the sub total.
So instead of showing 0 items in cart
it will instead show just 0
This is useful if you need to incorporate these totals into your design elements.
Package includes the original contribution also
Modified to work easily with STS less that 1 minute to install.
Just an update to version 1.1 . I foud it wasn't displaying the sub Total, so changed '<?php $currencies->format($cart->show_total())?> ' to '<?php echo $currencies->format($cart->show_total()); ?>' .
Seems to work fine now. Example at www.finishing-touch.co.uk/index.php
just an update to matrix2223 last - noticed his code for the cart didnt work for me.... updated the <?= to <?php
working now... this is only the readme file... dont need more than that
This is a Better cart info in header.
I got tired of searching for the one that I wanted only to find that it didnt work or it was'nt at all like I thought it was.
So I put this together for those who wanted something like I did.
To view what this looks like please go to:
http://mountainviewcandles.com
PLEASE do not make any test orders!!!!
What this does:
This take information that your shopping_cart.php collects from your database and add the text to your header.php file
Looks like:
<b><u>Your Cart Contains:</u></b>
0 Items (also links to the shopping_cart.php)
Sub Total: $0.00(also links to the shopping_cart.php)
There is also a cart image that is displayed and linked to the right of the info. The image is transperent so it will work with all backgrounds.
This can easily be modifed to have all, or some of the text in one line.
I hope this is usefull,
Eric