I\'m having some serious Magento issues here. As expected the following:
$products = Mage::getModel(\'catalog/category\')->load($category_id)
->getProd
I think you can do this by setting store to default like
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);
make sure you save the current store value and set it back after doing the above.
Or by using a script from outside magento and invoke mage by
require_once '../app/Mage.php';
$app = Mage::app();
Mage::register('isSecureArea', true);