Setting $Smarty.session.cart.amount To A Cookie Or Session For Outside Use

[color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]I'm using a separate CMS for a site and need to show the cart quantity outside of CS Cart. My set up currently has CS Cart installed in a sub directory (/shop).[/font][/color]



[color=#282828][font=arial, verdana, tahoma, sans-serif]I've tried setting the following in the config.local file however it doesn't seem to be working? Im using version 4+:[/font][/color]


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In another thread someone said the following code (setting the cart amount as a cookie) would then allow the cart quantity to be accessible within the CMS files, is this correct?



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setcookie(“cart_amount”, $_SESSION['cart']['amount'], time()+3600247, “/”);



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Does anyone have a answers on how to achieve this?