You posting only a small bit of the problem isn't going to help.

What is $this->tweets? A collection/array of objects? How are they retrieved? What's in the partial view you're using to render a single tweet?

Apologies -- I've been banging my head against it so long I guess I can't explain it very well or think properly which bits are most relevant. Let's be more specific.

The controller runs

echo "debug 1: "; print_r($socialData->tweets);
return View::make('public.social', ['socialData' => $socialData]);

$socialData is an object which has many methods on it which are called from the public.social view -- things to get the title of the social feed, its URL, and getFeedHtml to print out the feed itself. One such object (the Twitter one) has a property $tweets which is an array of data structures describing tweets, pulled from the Twitter API or cache.

So in public.social we have, for instance,

<div class="social-feed">
    debug 2: {{{ print_r($socialData->tweets, true) }}}
    {{ $socialData->getFeedHtml() }}
</div>

That method looks a little like the following:

$html = '';
foreach ($this->tweets as $tweet) {
    echo "debug 3: "; print_r($tweet);
    $html .= View::make('public.social.twitter.tweet', [
        'date' => Carbon::parse($tweet->created_at, Config::get('app.timezoneDisplay')),
         'tweet' => $tweet,
    ])->render();
}
return $html;

The public.social.twitter.tweet view includes a chunk like this:

<div class="social-message">
        debug 4: {{{ print_r($tweet, true) }}}
	{{ SocialTwitterData::getMessageHtml($tweet) }}
</div>

The getMessageHtml static method is looking at the object and turning it into HTML (in particular, it's wrapping links around hashtags etc).

In the above setup, 100% of the time I get the first tweet five times, rather than five different tweets. You'll see I put debug messages in the above.

Debug 1 (controller, before main view starts to render) shows the correct data: the array of five tweets. Debug 2 (in the main view) shows the same. Debug 3 (in the getMessageHtml method, for each tweet) shows five separate tweets (correct). Debug 4 (in the tweet partial) shows the first tweet's data structure five times.

Next, as I said in my original post, if I run getMessageHtml in the controller and pass the HTML it generates to the main view and then have the view just echo that, I get correct output for 90% of the feeds I've run it on. On the other 10% I still get the first tweet repeated five times. I have no idea why this might be.

Does this clear up the issue? Is there any more information I can give which might help?

I'm still stuck on this. Anyone able to help?

A suggestion I have is to run a for loop instead of a foreach, or even manually repeating them out if need be, just to see if the foreach itself is holding onto the data. Or even clone the $tweet variable before sending it to the view.

Thanks for your solution, tremby. I have the same problem using renderSections() on a foreach loop for HTML table rows, and @overwrite seems to make it work.