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I have just upgraded from 1.13 to 1.28 and my templates no longer work.

Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong please.

The template is as follows:

{{{name}}} {{{surname}}}

[[Image:{{{name}}}_{{{surname}}}.jpg|right|border|frame|10px|{{{name}}} {{{surname}}}]] Given Name: {{{name}}} {{{surname}}} Sex: {{{sex}}}

Parents

{{#vardefine: i | 1 }}{{#dowhile:

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  |

{{#vardefine: i

   | 
 }}

}}

{{#vardefine: i | 1}} {{#vardefine: j | 1}} {{#while:

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• {{{sname{{#var: i }}}}}, married on Unknown

Children{{#vardefine: j | 1}}{{#dowhile:

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• None

   {{#vardefine: j | 

}} }}

 {{#vardefine: i | 

}} }}

And The result looks like this:

<<< I CUT OUT THE BIT THAT WORKS >>>>

Siblings {{#vardefine: i | 1 }}{{#dowhile:

| 
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{{#vardefine: i

  | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".
}}

}}

Partners {{#vardefine: i | 1}} {{#vardefine: j | 1}} {{#while:

| 
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{{{sname{{#var: i }}}}}, married on Unknown Children{{#vardefine: j | 1}}{{#dowhile:

  | 
   |

None

  {{#vardefine: j | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".

}} }}

{{#vardefine: i | Expression error: Unrecognized punctuation character "{".

}} }}

Looks like you need to install or enable some of your old extensions

Thanks - I will give it a go

Please see my post above ----- Call to undefined method Message::escape() on Loops extension

After upgrading to MediaWiki v1.28 did you update your extensions too, especially Extension:Loops?

Yes I did.

What is the exact "Call to undefined method..." error that you are getting? Can you confirm it is related to Extension:Loops?

<cut>PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method Message::escape() in <cut>/Loops.php on line 360" while reading response header from upstream, client: <cut>

<Bounce> Anyone got an answer?

This was fixed in rELOOf9fe1ad758a7447a3c96f8c3ae9ce407095c8d20. You should try to download the latest version (for MediaWiki 1.29 or master) because 1.28 is broken.

Thank you - I have downloaded and installed 1.29 and installed the extensions, I ran the upgrade.

Now I am receiving the following message

"Maximum number of loops have been performed"

I have tried to set the loops to the  limits of phps environment by putting the following in LocalSettings.php

ExtLoops::$maxLoops = -1;

Am I doing the right thing???

Reading the code, ExtLoops::$maxLoops = -1; should work, yes. Does it still break? You may need to purge the page (for example, by editing the page again and saving without doing modifications)

I am still having great trouble with this.

I am unable to edit a page I receive the following error

[error] 2401#0: *18 FastCGI sent in stderr: "PHP message: PHP Fatal error:  Maximum execution time of 120 seconds exceeded in /mediawiki/includes/parser/Preprocessor_DOM.php on line 1170" while reading response header from upstream, client: <CUT>, request: "POST /mediawiki/index.php?title=<CUT>&action=submit HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://unix:/var/run/php5-fpm.sock:", host: "helium", referrer: <CUT>

Either your server is too slow, or there's something stuck in one of the MediaWiki scripts. Maybe removing the limit in the loops extension was not a good idea after all, it probably causes an endless loop somewhere. You should review the logic of your loop templates to find where the problem is.

Strange it should be a logic problem as those templates worked fine in 1.13