Delete all products and reset their Ids with least queries as possible

Question

Can somebody suggest an intermediate way to delete all products in magento and reset their table's increment id to 1 without using multiple "truncate" queries found when Googling ?

Magento version ce-1.9.x

Answer 1

to delete all the products, Create a file DeleteProduct.php inside your magento root folder and write the below code in that file and then execute it with below URL http://www.yourdomain.com/DeleteProduct.php try the below code :

<?php
require_once('app/Mage.php'); 
umask(0);
Mage::app('admin'); 
$productCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/product')
           ->getCollection();
foreach($productCollection as $_product)
{
    $productID = $_product->getId();

    try {
        Mage::getModel("catalog/product")->load($productID)->delete(); // this will delete product
    } catch (Exception $exception){
        var_dump($exception);
        die('Exception Thrown');
    }