How to insert category programmatically in magento 2.3?

[m2expdeveloper]

Hi Folks,

I am going to import the products from the .xml file and I need category inserted as programmatically in magento 2.3 

My code is working fine with attributes, description, price etc but it not importing category. I think the issue with below function.

$category->save();

Anybody can help me to solve this issue?

Thanks in Advance

[Vimal Kumar]

HI @m2expdeveloper 

You can create category programmatically using below code.  or you can compare you code with it. 

use \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;

include('../app/bootstrap.php');
$bootstrap = Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
$objectManager = $bootstrap->getObjectManager();
$url = \Magento\Framework\App\ObjectManager::getInstance();
$storeManager = $url->get('\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface');
$mediaurl= $storeManager->getStore()->getBaseUrl(\Magento\Framework\UrlInterface::URL_TYPE_MEDIA);
$state = $objectManager->get('\Magento\Framework\App\State');
$state->setAreaCode('frontend');
/// Get Website ID
$websiteId = $storeManager->getWebsite()->getWebsiteId();
echo 'websiteId: '.$websiteId." ";

/// Get Store ID
$store = $storeManager->getStore();
$storeId = $store->getStoreId();
echo 'storeId: '.$storeId." ";

/// Get Root Category ID
$rootNodeId = $store->getRootCategoryId();
echo 'rootNodeId: '.$rootNodeId." ";
/// Get Root Category
$rootCat = $objectManager->get('Magento\Catalog\Model\Category');
$cat_info = $rootCat->load($rootNodeId);

$categorys=array('Levis','Wranglers','Basics'); // Category Names
foreach($categorys as $cat)
{

$name=ucfirst($cat);
$url=strtolower($cat);
$cleanurl = trim(preg_replace('/ +/', '', preg_replace('/[^A-Za-z0-9 ]/', '', urldecode(html_entity_decode(strip_tags($url))))));
$categoryFactory=$objectManager->get('\Magento\Catalog\Model\CategoryFactory');
/// Add a new sub category under root category
$categoryTmp = $categoryFactory->create();
$categoryTmp->setName($name);
$categoryTmp->setIsActive(true);
$categoryTmp->setUrlKey($cleanurl);
$categoryTmp->setData('description', 'description');
$categoryTmp->setParentId($rootCat->getId());
$mediaAttribute = array ('image', 'small_image', 'thumbnail');
$categoryTmp->setImage('/m2.png', $mediaAttribute, true, false);// Path pub/meida/catalog/category/m2.png
$categoryTmp->setStoreId($storeId);
$categoryTmp->setPath($rootCat->getPath());
$categoryTmp->save();
}

I hope it will help you!
 

[m2expdeveloper · Accepted solution]

Hi Vimal,

Thank you for your quick feedback. I have try to use your code but it is not work for me. Here I am going to show you my code. So, Can you please help me where I do mistake? Here are my code.

<?php  use Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;

class sk_scripts {	
	var $obj;
	var $imageDir;
	var $productManager;
	
	public function __construct() {
		$rootDirectoryPath = '../';
		require $rootDirectoryPath . '/app/bootstrap.php';
		
		$params = $_SERVER;
		$bootstrap = Bootstrap::create(BP, $params);
		$this->obj = $bootstrap->getObjectManager();		
		$state = $this->obj->get('Magento\Framework\App\State');
		$state->setAreaCode('adminhtml');
		
		$storeManager = $this->obj->get('\Magento\Store\Model\StoreManagerInterface');
		
		$store = $storeManager->getStore();
		$this->storeId = $store->getStoreId();
		//$this->rootNodeId = $store->getRootCategoryId();
		$this->productManager = $this->obj->get('\Magento\Catalog\Api\Data\ProductInterface');
			
	}	
	
	public function save_product($catalog_arr) {
		$category_name = 'LCD Monitor';
		if($category_name!="") {
			$cateId = $this->save_category($category_name);
			
		}		
	}	
	
	public function save_category($CategoryName=NULL) {
		if($CategoryName!=NULL) {
			//$parentId = \Magento\Catalog\Model\Category::TREE_ROOT_ID; //This will return value 1
			$parentId = 2; // We have set parent category as a DEFAULT CATEGORY
			$parentCategory = $this->obj->create('Magento\Catalog\Model\Category')->load($parentId);
			$category = $this->obj->create('Magento\Catalog\Model\Category');
			
			//Check exist category
			$cate = $category->getCollection()
				->addAttributeToFilter('name',$CategoryName)
				->getFirstItem();

			if($cate->getId()==NULL) {
				$category->setPath($parentCategory->getPath())
					->setParentId($parentId)
					->setName($CategoryName)
					->setIsActive(true);
				$category->save();
				return $category->getId();
			} else {
				return $cate->getId();
			}		
		} else {
			return "Please enter valid category name.";
		}		
	}				
}	
$my_script = new sk_scripts();
$my_script->save_product();

Thank you in advance.

[AlessandroG]

Hello Vimal

do you know as i can recovered the id abiti new category

thank Alessandro