How to automaticly add categories

[MaHo]

I am trying to build a cron job that automatically creates new categories and adds products to them. However, when I try to add a category, it does not get saved. The auto-increment value increases, but nothing appears in the admin UI or the database.

I currently have the following code:

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try {
    // Find the category if it exists
    $authorcategory = $this->catalogManager->find(
        $categoryKey,
        ['text', 'attribute', 'catalog', 'media', 'price', 'product', 'service', 'supplier', 'product/property']
    );
}
catch (\Aimeos\MShop\Exception $e) {
    // Create a new category if it doesn't exist
    $this->log('Creating new category for author ' . $categoryName);

    // Get the parent category for all automaticly created catagories
    $parentCategory = $this->catalogManager->find(
        'authors',
        ['text', 'attribute', 'catalog', 'media', 'price', 'product', 'service', 'supplier', 'product/property']
    );

    // Create the category
    $authorcategory = $this->catalogManager->create([
        'catalog.code' => $categoryKey,
        'catalog.label' => $categoryName,
        'catalog.status' => -1,
        'catalog.parentid' => $parentCategory->getId(),
        'catalog.siteid' => 1,
    ]);

    $authorcategory->setModified(); //als je niet aangeeft dat er wat is aangepast word er niks opgeslagen

    // Save the category to the database
    $authorcategory = $this->catalogManager->insert($authorcategory);
}

I cannot find what I seem to be doing wrong. If I use save() instead of insert(), it throws an error telling me I should use insert(). The documentation also seems to be lacking in this part.

Aimeos version: 2024.10.2
PHP version: 8.3.0
Running on Ubuntu 22.04.5 using docker

[aimeos]

You have to use the product manager to add categories to products (not the other way round).

[MaHo]

My apologies i got the semantics wrong. However i have no problem adding categories to products. I have problems with creating the category in the first place.

[aimeos]

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    // Create the category
    $authorcategory = $this->catalogManager->create([
        'catalog.code' => $categoryKey,
        'catalog.label' => $categoryName,
        'catalog.status' => -1,
        'catalog.parentid' => $parentCategory->getId(),
        'catalog.siteid' => 1,
    ]);

    $authorcategory->setModified(); //als je niet aangeeft dat er wat is aangepast word er niks opgeslagen

    // Save the category to the database
    $authorcategory = $this->catalogManager->insert($authorcategory);

Use instead:

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    $authorcategory = $this->catalogManager->create()
        ->setLabel($categoryName)
        ->setCode($categoryKey)
        ->setStatus(-1);

    $authorcategory = $this->catalogManager->insert($authorcategory, $parentCategory->getId());

Make sure you've deleted all the categories that have been created during testing because they may have a wrong siteid.