I want to know the difference between Mini cart and Cart in details.
Best Answer
There are no major differences between cart and MiniCart.
There the are same entity of same module Magento_Checkout & Magento_Quote
The main difference between two is that MiniCart showing to all page at header top right corner` and Where Cart is a specific Page where current basket's all item of a current customer is shown.
Another difference, No of item show at the mini cart is limit, depends on the setting.
Where at cart page show, basket all items.
If you are a developer, then there are main different two is that
Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart') is Shopping cart model class.It's create Varien_Object.
Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session') is session class with 'checkout' namespace. This stores information related to the quote, guest or not (cart totals, items, checkout progress)
Mage::getSingleton('checkout/cart') class depends on Mage::getSingleton('checkout/session') when adding/updating/deleting product.
Best Answer
There are no major differences between cart and MiniCart.
There the are same entity of same module
Magento_Checkout & Magento_QuoteThe main difference between two is that MiniCart showing to all page at header top right corner` and Where Cart is a specific Page where current basket's all item of a current customer is shown.
Another difference, No of item show at the mini cart is limit, depends on the setting.
Where at cart page show, basket all items.
If you are a developer, then there are main different two is that
MINicart data manage using https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.3/extension-dev-guide/cache/page-caching/private-content.html
And where Cart page data depends on Block class and layout files.