Magento - Moving a Category Programmatically

Question

How to move a category to another category with all child categories?

I tried the following solution:

$nodeId = 2269;
$parentId = 2268;

$tree = Mage::getResourceModel('catalog/category_tree')->load();
$node = $tree->getNodeById($nodeId);
$parentNode = $tree->getNodeById($parentId);

$parentChildren = explode(',', $parentNode->getChildren());
$afterId = array_pop($parentChildren);
$prevNode = $tree->getNodeById($afterId);
if (!$prevNode || !$prevNode->getId()) {
    $prevNode = null;
}

$tree->move($node, $parentNode, $prevNode);

However, my result is somewhat distorted. If I move to the root category, this will work, but if I move to the category of children, I will get erroneous results and disappeared categories.

These are the field path values ​​in the database:

Old: 1/2/3/2175/2269
New: 1/2/3/2175/2226/2268/2269
Correct: 1/2/3/2226/2268/2269

Answer 1

The solution was quite simple, it did not ruin the way. However, this method seems to be slower.

$categoryId = 2269;
$parentId = 2268;

$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($categoryId);
$category->move($parentId, null);

Answer 2

$parent = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load('REPLACE_WITH_PARENT_ID');
$category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
$category->addData(array('name' => 'YOUR_CATEGORY_NAME', 'path' => $parent->getPath()));
$category->save();