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How To Export and Import Categories in Magento

Step 1 of 4: Write the following code in category.php and place it to root directory. Run this file at browser http://www.example.com/exportCategories.php. It will generate a CSV file Categories.csv (export all categories).

Step 2 of 4: Import the categories

         create config.xml  at app\code\local\ImpCat\Catalog\etc\config.xml

         create Category.php at app\code\local\ImpCat\Catalog\Model\Convert\Adapter\Category.php

         create ImpCat_All.xml  at  app\etc\modules

Step 3 of 4: create dataflow advanced profile at

        admin > system >Import/Export > Dataflow - Advanced Profile 
        
        and give the Profile Name is 'category import'

           

  //place the following code to its Actions xml box 

    <action type="dataflow/convert_adapter_io" method="load">
       <var name="type">file</var>
       <var name="path">var/import</var>
       <var name="filename"><![CDATA[Categories.csv]]></var>
       <var name="format"><![CDATA[csv]]></var>
     </action>
     <action type="dataflow/convert_parser_csv" method="parse">
       <var name="delimiter"><![CDATA[,]]></var>
       <var name="enclose"><![CDATA["]]></var>
       <var name="fieldnames">true</var>
       <var name="store"><![CDATA[0]]></var>
       <var name="number_of_records">1</var>
       <var name="decimal_separator"><![CDATA[.]]></var>
       <var name="adapter">catalog/convert_adapter_category</var>
       <var name="method">parse</var>
     </action>

Step 4:

     Put Categories.csv into var/import/ and
     removed cat_id colums from csv.
     remove first two rows.
     remove all Default Category/ from categories colunn in Categories.csv
     
     Now to Run Profile admin > system > Import/Export > Dataflow-Advanced Profile
     run 'category import' profile  from Run Profile > click 'Run Profile in Popup'
     import of category now start and automatically created category.