How to create Magento 2 category programmatically?

Use this code:

<?php
use \Magento\Framework\App\Bootstrap;
echo 'code by harshvardhanmalpani';
include('./app/bootstrap.php');
$bootstrap = Bootstrap::create(BP, $_SERVER);
$objectManager = $bootstrap->getObjectManager();
 
function createCategory($a='',$b=2,$c=true,$d='',$e='',$f='',$g='') {
        global $objectManager;
        $category = $objectManager->get('\Magento\Catalog\Model\CategoryFactory')->create();
        $category->setName($a);
        $category->setParentId($b); // 1: root category.
        $category->setIsActive($c);
        $category->setCustomAttributes([
'description' => $d,
'meta_title' => $e,
'meta_keywords' => $f,
 'meta_description' => $g,
     ]);
        $objectManager->get('\Magento\Catalog\Api\CategoryRepositoryInterface')->save($category);
}
createCategory("Abc");
createCategory("Xyz",4,false,"description","m title");
?>

Posted

October 27, 2017

Magento, PHP, Scripts

Harshvardhan Malpani

Tags:

categories, magento, magento2, magneto 2.2, php, programmatically

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2 responses to “How to create Magento 2 category programmatically?”

Ioannis

April 17, 2021

Hello, where do we put this code in the bootstarp.php file to add a new category?
thank you for your reply

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1. Harshvardhan Malpani
  
  May 6, 2021
  
  You can put it any new php file and run it in browser or through cli.
  
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How to create Magento 2 category programmatically?

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