Magento mass-assign products to category

Question

As the title says,i need to mass-assign products to a category and from the admin i can only edit one product at a time; i dont know why it just doesnt work to mass add them

Answer 1

You may as well do this using the magento API This is the script I use for mass adding products. sku.txt contains one sku per line.

login('apiuser', 'apipasswd');


$listOfDiscountedSKUFile = "sku.txt";


function readinFile($filePath)
{
    $fp = fopen($filePath,'r') or exit("Unable to open file!");
    $dataItems = array();
    while(!feof($fp))
    {
        $dataItems[] = trim(fgets($fp));
    }
    fclose($fp);
    var_dump($dataItems);
    return $dataItems;
}

function addToCategory($sku,$categoryId)
{
    global $proxy,$sessionId;
    $proxy->call($sessionId, 'category.assignProduct', array($categoryId, $sku));
}

function IsNullOrEmptyString($question){
        return (!isset($question) || trim($question)==='');
}
$categoryId = 82;//e.g.
$listOfSKU = readinFile($listOfDiscountedSKUFile);
foreach($listOfSKU as $sku)
{
    addToCategory($sku,$category);
}

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