Thread:Project:Support desk/Auto new User Page Generation and Edit Extention no longer works after 1.18 Upgrade

Product Version - MediaWiki 1.18.2 PHP 5.3.10 (apache2handler) MySQL 5.5.23-enterprise-commercial-advanced-log

EXTENTION
When New users log into our wiki for the first time, a NewUserRedirect extention we created using a hook from AddNewAccount. This extention :


 * 1 - Creates their userpage with their logon username.
 * 2 - Edits that page to include a redirect to a page with their proper name IE "Joe Smith" aka $newName that we pull in from LDAP.

ISSUE
The issue is, after we upgraded from 1.17 to 1.18.2 this extension stopped working. We have tried to check all logs but are at a loss. A simplified version of the code is shown below.

QUESTION
My question is, has there been any changes to the $article = new or $article->doEdit that would now prevent this from working, and or is there a another command we could create and edit the new users page via an extention. Please note, this is only created the first time they log on. I have spent a significant amount of time troubleshooting and researching this with no luck. Any help would be appreciated.

Sample Code : getName; $userpage = $user->getUserPage; if (!$userpage->exists) { $article = new Article($userpage); $article->doEdit("#REDIRECT [$newName[Category: Category:AutoMagically Redirected]]",false); }	return true; }
 * 1) Extension:NewUserRedirect