How to show total shopping cart items and price in Header Magento?

Edit the template\page\html\header.phtml file and add the below code to display total number of items and price in header.


<?php 
    $count = $this->helper('checkout/cart')->getSummaryCount();  //get total items in cart 
    $total = $this->helper('checkout/cart')->getQuote()->getGrandTotal(); //get total price 
    if($count==0) 
    { 
        echo $this->__('Items: %s',$count); 
    } 
    if($count==1) 
    { 
        echo $this->__(' Item: %s',$count); 
    } 
    if($count>1) 
    { 
        echo $this->__(' Items: %s',$count); 
    } 
    echo $this->__(' Total: %s', $this->helper('core')->formatPrice($total, false));
?>