Here’s a summarised version of our issue.

We have a plugin that pulls various fields out of a query.

They are then pushed to the template via this method - for example, for author name.

$tagdata = $TMPL->swap_var_single($key, $row[‘author’], $tagdata);

Then our template code for example is:

{exp:entrylinks orderby=“latest” weblog=”{my_weblog}” parse=“inward”}
{author}
{/exp:entrylinks}

Unfortunately, when this returns multiple rows, and multiple authors, the Author name will not change.

e.g. if our result set is Jim, Harry, Jim, Ben

EE will output

Jim, Jim, Jim, Jim

Is there a method of variable flushing or something like that, which has been overlooked?

Moved to Plugins: Technical Assistance by Moderator

Found the issue, it appears EE doesn’t like the use of custom plugins messing with the {author} template variable.

Changing the variable to {entry_author} has fixed it.

Hi, Andrew. This question is more of a programming question than a technical support question, so I moved it.