Link to Cart in Main Menu with Price sum shown

[JestaBlunt]

hi folkz,

my running version of VM is 3.0.6.2 and joomla 3.4.1.

i have the following task to do: i need to make a link to the shopping cart in the main menu, and on the left side on the link there should be an icon of a bag and the price sum of all articles in the cart. also, the cart link is the first in the menu.

Now i dont know how to start. Do i have to change the cart module or is there that functionality included in VM?

My guess is, that i put the cart module before the main menu and change it to link to the cart overview and show the sum?

i would be very thankful for some clues

thx, and peace
jesta

[GJC Web Design]

yes - what u are describing is a restyled vm cart module

you should be on at least VM3.0.6.4 , 3.0.6.2 is broken on J3.4.1

[JestaBlunt]

so...can i make an alternative layout? or only an override?

[JestaBlunt]

and is there a documentation about where to get the data? like, is there a sum total which i can use or do i have to sum it up manually?

[JestaBlunt]

and another one...i want to remove the "total" (in german "summe") from the sum. but when i do a language override, the sum is also missing, not only the text before. where is that "billTotal" variable constructed?

[GJC Web Design]

you just over ride the module tmpl default file and follow what is in their..

look in the module php to see how lang vars etc render the text/prices