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We’re working on a system that uses a custom written plugin to power quizes, and would like to do something like this to get a certain record from the result_text channel:

{exp:channel:entries channel="result_text" search:result_summary_age="{exp:quiz:get_age}"}
...
{/exp:channel:entries}

I seem to remember this sort of thing working fine in 1.6, however now we are always getting a search for the literal text of the parameter including the plugin tag.

Is there any way to get this sort of thing to work the way we think it should / did?

It’s a parsing order issue since the “Channel” module is running before the “quiz” plugin, the most efficient way to handle this (imo) is to nest an embedded template.

You could try:

{embed="_includes/.your_results" get_age="{exp:quiz:get_age}"}

_includes/.your_results:

{exp:channel:entries channel="result_text" search:result_summary_age="{embed:get_age}"}
...
{/exp:channel:entries}

Now, the “quiz” plugin should be rendered, then the embed, and inside the embed the Channel module.