Can not link product to a category with php script

[lolrich]

Hello,

 

I am using the inbuild import system, to import all my products,

but i can't find a way to link the products to my existing/new categories,

 

i am using this:

$object->id_category_default = 12;

$object->category[] = 12;

 

and the category id 12 already exists and works fine,

and the product is created fine, its only the relation from the product to the category that is missing,

 

i hope there is someone out there who got the magic moves to solve this issue :-)

 

been searching everyone without any luck!

 

Regards

[Paul C]

Assuming that you have an array of categories that the product belongs to I would set it via:

 

$cats = array('1', '2', '3');
$product->id_category_default = $cats[0];
$product->updateCategories($cats);

 

If you only have 1 category to set (12 in your example) then just do:

 

$product->id_category_default = 12;
$product->updateCategories(array('12'));

[lolrich]

Hello Paul,

 

Thanks for your help, but that doesn't help apparently :-(

the product wont relate to any categories/category from the code above,

 

anyone else have a solution about this?