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

Try this

login($magento_webservices_username,  $magento_webservices_passwd);

$data = array('name'=>'Nokia',
            'description'=>'',
            'meta_description'=>'',
            'meta_keywords'=>'',
            'default_sort_by'=>'price',
            'available_sort_by'=>'price',
            'is_active'=>1
);
$newCategoryId = $proxy->call($sessionId, 'category.create', array(3, $data, 1));
echo "Category ID: ".$newCategoryId;

?>

And also have a look Magento create category