How to create in Magento with custom code? - magento

Question

I am using this code to create categories and subcategories. This code works fine but the problem is I can't create my own category codes. And I need it to use it for the requeriments.
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->setStoreId(0); // 0 = default/all store view. If you want to save data for a specific store view, replace 0 by Mage::app()->getStore()->getId().
//if update
if ($id) {
$category->load($id);
}
$general['name'] = "My Category";
$general['path'] = "1/3/"; // catalog path here you can add your own ID
$general['description'] = "Great My Category";
$general['meta_title'] = "My Category"; //Page title
$general['meta_keywords'] = "My , Category";
$general['meta_description'] = "Some description to be found by meta search robots. 2";
$general['landing_page'] = ""; //has to be created in advance, here comes id
$general['display_mode'] = "PRODUCTS"; //static block and the products are shown on the page
$general['is_active'] = 1;
$general['is_anchor'] = 0;
$general['page_layout'] = 'two_columns_left';
//$general['url_key'] = "cars";//url to be used for this category's page by magento.
//$general['image'] = "cars.jpg";
$category->addData($general);
try {
$category->setId(255); // Here you cant set your own entity id
$category->save();
echo "Success! Id: ".$category->getId();
}
catch (Exception $e){
echo $e->getMessage();
}
I tried to do something like that:
$general['id'] = $myCustomId;
But it's not working.

Answer 1

The key needs to map the column header, which is entity_id. So, change $general['id'] to
$general['entity_id'] = $myCustomId;