Create Bulk Magento Categories

addCats.php

<?php
$cats = array(
'Name' =>	'Description.',
);

define('MAGENTO', realpath(dirname(__FILE__)));
require_once MAGENTO . '/app/Mage.php';

umask(0);
Mage::app()->setCurrentStore(Mage_Core_Model_App::ADMIN_STORE_ID);
$count = 0;
$storeId=0;
$parentCat=72;
foreach($cats as $name=>$desc)
    {
    $count++;

        $data['general']['path'] = parentCat;
        $data['general']['name'] = $name;
        $data['general']['meta_title'] = "";
        $data['general']['meta_description'] = "";
        $data['general']['is_active'] = 1;
        $data['general']['url_key'] = seoUrl($name);
        $data['general']['display_mode'] = "PRODUCTS";
        $data['general']['is_anchor'] = 0;
        $data['general']['description'] = $desc;
        $data['general']['include_in_menu'] = 0;
        $data['general']['custom_use_parent_settings'] = 1;
        $data['category']['parent'] = parentCat;

        createCategory($data, $storeId);
        sleep(0.5);
        unset($data);

    }

function createCategory($data, $storeId)
    {
    echo "Starting {$data['general']['name']} [{$data['category']['parent']}] ...";
    $category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category');
    $category->setStoreId($storeId);

    // Fix must be applied to run script
    // http://www.magentocommerce.com/boards/appserv/main.php/viewreply/157328/

    if (is_array($data))
        {
        $category->addData($data['general']);
        if (!$category->getId())
            {
            $parentId = $data['category']['parent'];
            if (!$parentId)
                {
                if ($storeId)
                    {
                    $parentId = Mage::app()->getStore($storeId)->getRootCategoryId();
                    }
                  else
                    {
                    $parentId = Mage_Catalog_Model_Category::TREE_ROOT_ID;
                    }
                }

            $parentCategory = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($parentId);
            $category->setPath($parentCategory->getPath());
            }

        /**
         * Check "Use Default Value" checkboxes values
         */
        if ($useDefaults = $data['use_default'])
            {
            foreach($useDefaults as $attributeCode)
                {
                $category->setData($attributeCode, null);
                }
            }

        $category->setAttributeSetId($category->getDefaultAttributeSetId());
        if (isset($data['category_products']) && !$category->getProductsReadonly())
            {
            $products = array();
            parse_str($data['category_products'], $products);
            $category->setPostedProducts($products);
            }

        try
            {
            $category->save();
            echo "Suceeded <br /> ";
            }

        catch(Exception $e)
            {
            echo "Failed <br />";
            }
        }
    }
function seoUrl($string) {
    //Lower case everything
    $string = strtolower($string);
    //Make alphanumeric (removes all other characters)
    $string = preg_replace("/[^a-z0-9_\s-]/", "", $string);
    //Clean up multiple dashes or whitespaces
    $string = preg_replace("/[\s-]+/", " ", $string);
    //Convert whitespaces and underscore to dash
    $string = preg_replace("/[\s_]/", "-", $string);
    return $string;
}