How to remove all catalog products in Magento

Question

I\'ve trying to import a products list to magento. In the firsts test, I got success, but the products were not showing up in back or front office.

After redo the impor

Answer 1

Delete products with a SQL query is not the Magento way and I recommend not doing it. It may cause database corruption or problems with the foreign key indexes/constraints as stated here.

Everybody interested in using a correct, safe and also fast way to alter things in Magento should ALWAYS use Magento's ORM functions.

In this case this would be in a php script.

Mage::getModel('catalog/product')->getCollection()->delete();

This is the only safe way in Magento.