How to add a category to Magento via Setup script?

Question

I actually can add a category via setup script, the thing is for some reason some of the fields doesn\'t get set properly. Here\'s is my code

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Answer 1

I finally found it, I'm not sure why but those fields are not showing up properly because they were inserted for the default store (storeId=1) because my script is running in an update script. You need to use the storeId 0.

With this information you would think that the solution would be something like :

$this->startSetup();
Mage::register('isSecureArea', 1);

Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->setPath('1/2') // set parent to be root category
    ->setStoreId(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID)
    ->setName('Category Name')
    ...
    ->save();
$this->endSetup();

But this code doesn't work either. Indeed after looking into Mage::app() (Mage_Core_Model_App Line 804) I noticed a IF condition that would always return the default store if you're in a setup script.

The trick is to fake that you're not in a setup script, my working solution is:

$this->startSetup();
Mage::register('isSecureArea', 1);

// Force the store to be admin
Mage::app()->setUpdateMode(false);
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->setPath('1/2') // set parent to be root category
    ->setStoreId(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID)
    ->setName('Category Name')
    ...
    ->save();
$this->endSetup();