Get The Root Category In Magento

Question

Dear all,

Here is my silly question, which I know is easy for someone worked on magento already. I'm a noob sorry!

How can we get The Root Category In Magento with the code please?

- Akshay

Answer 1

<?php
$rootCategoryId = Mage::app()->getStore()->getRootCategoryId();
$_category = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->load($rootCategoryId);
// You can then get all of the top level categories using:
$_subcategories = $_category->getChildrenCategories();
?>