I am making a shopping cart icon that has a notification of how many items are in the cart.

trying to figure out how to echo a string of the number of items.

I just need the item count no totals or $ etc.

I just tried it and even tried css display none on those elements that kind of gets me to where I need to be.

would it be tough to add this functionality to the totals shortcode?

I was trying to figure out the styling cause there is a bunch of css included with that shortcake i.e. it does not output just a regular number its wrapped in styles.

ok for others that are interested in this –

I added this to my code for a shopping cart glyphicon with notification of cart items

<span class="cart-notation noIbar"><?php echo do_shortcode( "[wppizza type='totals' itemcount='left']" ) ?></span>

then I applied some css

.cart-notation{
position:absolute;
font-size: 20px;
color: white;
top: 2px;
left: -5px;
}
.wppizza-total, .wppizza-totals-currency {
display: none;
}
.noIbar {
pointer-events: none;
}

this gives you a nice little cart icon you can put in your nav or wherever you like – then it shows an ajax updated number over the cart signifying how many items are in the cart.

it also has pointer-events: none; what this does is make the numbers “transparent” to the mouse events so your mouse pointer dosnt change to that I when hovering over text.

Thank you Olly for providing the means to make this possible even though I didnt know it had this capability at first 🙂