获取所有Magento类别的名称

Question

I'm trying to get all the categories in my Magento website. I've achieved that but they only come back with limited data. I need the name of the category which I'm missing. I've tried using addAttributeToSelect but that doesn't make any difference. Here is my code.

$cats = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getCollection()->addAttributeToSelect('*')->getData();
print_r($cats);

Answer 1

Your code is OK. Except the print_r.
You are printing a collection object and you need to print the items in it.

$cats = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')
         ->getCollection()
         ->addAttributeToSelect('*');//or use 'name' instead of '*'

foreach ($cats as $cat){
    echo 'ID: '.$cat->getId().' Name: '.$cat->getName().'<br />';
}