Piwik _site group a reserved word

Support & Bugs
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Hi,

piwik has a mysql table piwik_site

it has a field name which is a reserved word ‘group’ which stops me from adding my sites using a mysql script to insert lots of sites from GA to piwik_site table. this is driving me a bit nuts. :S

I don’t personally use the group field but it is set as NOT NULL so I can’t miss it from my mysql inserts statement.

anyone know how to get around this.

why did piwik use a field name which is a reserved word?

HELP please. :slight_smile:

thanks for any advice.

M

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set it to empty string

the ‘group’ field is used to fetch websites from the API, by specifying a group. It is kind of a like a free form category.

3

hi,

thanks for the answer but that is the problem… mysql insert statements will not work in my system if the word ‘group’ is included as one of the insert fields.

I have got around it now though…
I renamed the original table and then created a new table exactly the same BUT set group to allow nulls. This has allowed me to remove group from my mysql inserts. seems to be working as i require now.

thanks

M

4

Can you use backticks around group ?

5

Okay, interesting! This is exactly the problem I have!

Please can anybody tell me how to change group into “group” in PHPMyAdmin?

Thanks!

Edit: Ai, this is simplerer (is this a word? sorry for me bad English!) than I thought. My provider told me that you cant change the field group. But it seems you can!

I logged in at PHPMyAdmin and went to table: piwik_site, than to the tab: structure, and changed the field group into “group”. And my backups are working again! Jippie!! (tu)