Creating categories in Joomla Programmatically

gistfile1.txt

$tagTitles = array(
	"title 1",
	"title 2",
	"title 3"
);

foreach ($tagTitles as $title ) 
{
	$category = JTable::getInstance('Category');
	$category->extension = "com_[[[component]]].training";
	$category->title = $title;
	$category->description = '';
	$category->published = 1;
	$category->access = 1;
	$category->params = '{"target":"","image":""}';
	$category->metadata = '{"page_title":"","author":"","robots":""}';
	$category->language = '*';

	// Set the location in the tree
	$category->setLocation(1, 'last-child');

	// Check to make sure our data is valid
	if (!$category->check())
	{
		JError::raiseNotice(500, $category->getError());
		return false;
	}

	// Now store the category
	if (!$category->store(true))
	{
		JError::raiseNotice(500, $category->getError());
		return false;
	}
	// Build the path for our category
	$category->rebuildPath($category->id);
}