Adding a Category - prestashop says name is missing

[Ikoshop]

I have a function attached to a hook which should add a category

          $category = new Category();
          $category->name = 'foobar';
          $category->active = true;
          $category->id_parent = 2;
          $category->level_depth = 2;
          $category->add();

When I click the button, the function runs but returns this error

 

Property Category->name is empty.

I double-check by logging the value of $category->name before the add() call and it's correct.

Why would it give this error?

 

 

 

 

[Ikoshop]

Going off the definition of the Category class, if I replace the add(); by 

 

Hook::exec('actionCategoryAdd', ['category' => $category]);

then it adds the category and category shop entries to the database but not the category_lang entry, so that's a bit useless.

 

Might as well just insert the three tables manually I guess. Bit weird to have these functions that don't do what they're supposed to though

[Nickz]

What are you trying to accomplish?
What addon, module or theme you wish to add?

[Ikoshop]

Thank you.

It's my own module.

I'm trying to sychronise products between Prestashop and a POS database.

In this particular instance a new category has been added to the POS database and when I click a button in Prestashop it should get this new info from the POS DB and add a new category to the Prestashop DB.

The SQL request equivalent of what I want to do is (roughly) this:



But I'd prefer a more elegant solution with Prestashop's own methods, if possible.

[Prestashop Addict]

Hi, the name is required filed of the class

[Ikoshop]

Yes, that's why I added the name and checked that the name was set before calling add() .

Have I done it wrong?

[QuickUpdate.net]

regarding your first question,

in some versions of prestashop (>1.6) the name field is actually an array with the indexes being the language id for the respective string

so in your case what may work is:

$category->name = [1 => 'foobar', 2=> 'foobar_2'], "1" and "2" being the language ids you want to update, can be only one or more / but must be at least you default shop language id

Edited 5 hours ago by QuickUpdate.net (see edit history)

[Prestashop Addict]

Yes change your code to

$category->name[$idLang];