How do I get items in a Magento shopping cart using models?

Question

Is there any code with which I could fetch items added to the shopping cart and their count from Magento using any models or helpers?

Answer 1

To get your cart object (in session) :

$quote = Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session')->getQuote();

Then, to get the list of items in the cart :

$cartItems = $quote->getAllVisibleItems();

Then, to get the count for each item :

foreach ($cartItems as $item) {
    echo $item->getQty();
}