Thread: Testing If Cart Has Items

I just upgraded from version 7 to version 8. I used to use this statement (below) in the minicart xml file for testing to see if i wanted to show the minicart based on it having contents. It no longer works and causes an exception so i assume it is no longer used.

<xsl:if test="$CartHasItems!=''">
...
</xsl:if>

is there another way to do this?

I do know there is a token: "(!NUM_CART_ITEMS!)" but that is not accessable.

Jeskey,

What we do is the following in a couple of our client's minicart code:

HTML Code:

          <xsl:param name="ItemCount" select="count(/root/ShoppingCart/Item)" />

          <xsl:template match="/">
              <xsl:choose>
                <xsl:when test="$ItemCount &gt; 0 and $ItemCount &lt; 3 ">
                       ... code for the minicart if there are SOME items but less than 3 (ok, so that means just either 1 or two items
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:when test="$ItemCount &gt; 2">
                       ... code for when there are 3 or more items in the cart
                </xsl:when>
                <xsl:otherwise>
                     <!-- No items in the cart so don't do anything -->
                </xsl:otherwise>
              </xsl:choose>

I would imagine that you would just need to check if the $ItemCount is greater than 0 and keep the empty otherwise statement.

Good luck!

Those lines of code and its structure you presented are very much okay and will do just fine.

Thanks for you help....that worked perfectly. I am new to the whole xml / xsl and it is starting to make sense.

Glad that worked out for you. I wouldn't say I'm an expert yet in the XMLPackages but glad to be able to give back given how much I've gotten from these forums.

I have also implemented the code in my xml but the code you have provided doesnt work at all

could you please look at the text file and see whats wrong with it.

thank you