I would recommend you install Tim Starling's ParserFunctions - http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:ParserFunctions - as lots of Wikipedia's templates and infoboxes use these. Copying from Wikipedia is probably the best way to learn about infoboxes. Beware however that just copying them will likely result in them looking like an odd bunch of <td> tags; you'll need to find the relevant CSS in (I think) MediaWiki:Common.css On 26/05/07, Azurite &lt;azurite(a)seventh-star.net&gt; wrote: -- Gary Kirk

On Saturday 26 May 2007 08:43, Azurite wrote: The page on meta has instructions for getting PF to work on 1.6: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/ParserFunctions#Installation Ian

I actually found the fixes for 1.6 on the bottom of the page... I'm a bit too impatient with errors. Well, I implemented them, and they seemed to work, until I got this: *Parse error*: syntax error, unexpected T_DEFAULT in */home/*****/public_html/wikific/extensions/ParserFunctions/ParserFunctions.php* on line *179* Line 179 is this: default: followed by this: $magicWords['expr'] = array( 0, 'expr' ); $magicWords['if'] = array( 0, 'if' ); $magicWords['ifeq'] = array( 0, 'ifeq' ); $magicWords['ifexpr'] = array( 0, 'ifexpr' ); $magicWords['switch'] = array( 0, 'switch' ); $magicWords['default'] = array( 0, '#default' ); $magicWords['ifexist'] = array( 0, 'ifexist' ); $magicWords['time'] = array( 0, 'time' ); } I'm not sure if this is a matter of quotes not being where they should, though I read that's a common cause of the T_DEFAULT error. The changes I made: * Uploaded SprintfDateCompat.php to my ParserFunctions extension folder * Replaced the #-less section of this with the one that includes them: $wgParser->setFunctionHook( '#expr', array( &$wgExtParserFunctions, 'expr' ) ); $wgParser->setFunctionHook( '#if', array( &$wgExtParserFunctions, 'ifHook' ) ); $wgParser->setFunctionHook( '#ifeq', array( &$wgExtParserFunctions, 'ifeq' ) ); $wgParser->setFunctionHook( '#ifexpr', array( &$wgExtParserFunctions, 'ifexpr' ) ); $wgParser->setFunctionHook( '#switch', array( &$wgExtParserFunctions, 'switchHook' ) ); $wgParser->setFunctionHook( '#ifexist', array( &$wgExtParserFunctions, 'ifexist' ) ); * Added this to line 169: function wfParserFunctionsLanguageGetMagic( &$magicWords, $langCode='en' ) { * Replaced the older version of this on line 57 with this: function ifHook( &$parser, $test = '', $then = '', $else = '' ) { if ( (string)$test !== '' ){ Those are all the fixes mentioned on the Meta page, but I'm not running PHP 4.3.9, which is the only version cited as being incompatible with that last fix. Any ideas? -Azurite