Magento 2: How to insert the checkout & cart link in phtml?

Question

Magento version: 2.0.0

I try to add the checkout & cart page link to the page header not the toplink, so what's the link of them? I searched my question and got a solution that add a block into the default.xml, but I don't know how to use it in phtml file. so, how to use it?

<block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Links" name="top.links">
                <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="my-link">
                    <arguments>
                        <argument name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">My Cart</argument>
                        <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">checkout/cart</argument>
                    </arguments>
                </block>
                <block class="Magento\Framework\View\Element\Html\Link\Current" name="my-link1">
                    <arguments>
                        <argument name="label" xsi:type="string" translate="true">Checkout</argument>
                        <argument name="path" xsi:type="string">checkout</argument>
                    </arguments>
                </block>                   
            </block>

Answer 1

You can call checkout & cart page link at phtml/block by below code without using layout xml

For PHTML:

Checkout link:

<?php echo $block->getUrl('checkout', ['_secure' => true]);?>

Cart link:

<?php echo $block->getUrl('checkout/cart', ['_secure' => true]);?>

At block class:

Checkout link:

$this->getUrl('checkout', ['_secure' => true]);

and Cart link:

$this->getUrl('checkout/cart', ['_secure' => true]);