Create CSV list of all products & their categories

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can somebody suggest me a way or a script to export a csv file with all product SKUs & the categories those SKUs are associated to?

I’ve tried several things… but nothing seems to work. Magento’s product export isn’t working for me.. It gives me errors.

1. I’ve tried the Aten’s script [source code] but it prints the
   categories in json format..

2. so i’ve also tried this:

   define('MAGENTO', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)));
   require_once MAGENTO . '/app/Mage.php';
   Mage::app();
   
   $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId);
   
   $ids = $category->getCollection()->getAllIds();
   
   if ($ids) {
       $file = "var/import/catwithid.csv";
       file_put_contents($file,"category_ids, sku" . "\n");
       foreach ( $ids as $id ) {
         $string = $id . ', ' . $category->load($id) . "\n";
           file_put_contents($file, $string, FILE_APPEND);
       }
   }
   

and this

define('MAGENTOROOT', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)));
require_once(MAGENTOROOT.'/app/Mage.php');
umask(0); 
Mage::app('default');

$products = Mage::getModel("catalog/product")->getCollection();
$products->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1);
$products->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4);
$products->load();

$fp = fopen('exports.csv', 'w');
$csvHeader = array("sku", "category_ids");
fputcsv( $fp, $csvHeader, $delimiter = ", ");

foreach( $products as $_product ) {
$sku = $_product->getData('sku');
$product = $_product->load($sku);
$product_row = array($sku);
fputcsv( $fp, $product_row, $delimiter = ", ");
}

I’ve also tried to merge them together but with no luck! :/

please help me!!

How to solve :

I know you bored from this bug, So we are here to help you! Take a deep breath and look at the explanation of your problem. We have many solutions to this problem, But we recommend you to use the first method because it is tested & true method that will 100% work for you.

Method 1

This should work:

<?php
error_reporting(E_ALL | E_STRICT);
define('MAGENTO_ROOT', getcwd());
$mageFilename = MAGENTO_ROOT . '/app/Mage.php';
require_once $mageFilename;
Mage::setIsDeveloperMode(true);
ini_set('display_errors', 1);
Mage::app();
$products = Mage::getModel("catalog/product")->getCollection();
$products->addAttributeToSelect('category_ids');
$products->addAttributeToFilter('status', 1);//optional for only enabled products
$products->addAttributeToFilter('visibility', 4);//optional for products only visible in catalog and search
$fp = fopen('exports.csv', 'w');
$csvHeader = array("sku", "category_ids");
fputcsv( $fp, $csvHeader,",");
foreach ($products as $product){
    $sku = $product->getSku();
    $categoryIds = implode('|', $product->getCategoryIds());//change the category separator if needed
    fputcsv($fp, array($sku, $categoryIds), ",");
}
fclose($fp);

put the script in a file on the same level as index.php and run it in the browser or command line.

Note: Use and implement method 1 because this method fully tested our system.
Thank you 🙂

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