Question

Can anyone shed any light on how I might programatically edit with PHP the data accessible in the admin such as the category description, product name etc in Magento?

I have scoured Google but am unable to find anything to that effect at all.

I hear of a Magento API that seems to use SOAP, could this be used perhaps? All my code would be local to the Magento installation at any rate.

Answer 1

If your code is local then load the category model by category id (or any parameter unique to that category) and change the description with

Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load(categoryid);->setYourvariable('yournewvalue')->save();