Magento Create Category Programmatically

Magento Create Category Programmatically :

You can create categories programmatically in Magento by Mage::getModel(‘catalog/category’) method which is used to initialize and create the category in Magento 1.9

Magento Create Category Programmatically Syntax

This code can be placed inside any PHP file that calls Magento bootstrapper and will execute the functionality accordingly.
 

<?php
$mageFilename = 'app/Mage.php';
$parentId = '2';// this is id of parent category
 try{
    $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
    $category->setName('category name');
    $category->setUrlKey('category-url-key');
    $category->setIsActive(1);
    $category->setDisplayMode('PRODUCTS');
    $category->setIsAnchor(1); //active anchor
    $category->setStoreId(Mage::app()->getStore()->getId());
    $parentCategory = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($parentId);
    $category->setPath($parentCategory->getPath());
    $category->save();
} 
?>

Using this code one can easily create 50+ categories in Magento programmatically. You can add category title and URL key to show in the front-end respectively.