DMZ 1.7.1 (DataMapper OverZealous Edition)

[eluser]WanWizard[/eluser]
You have to remember that you work with objects, and objects are (in recent PHP versions) passed around by reference.

Datamapper methods return the current object (so you can chain methods off it), unless it has a specific return value, like count(), which returns a number (which is why I didn't understand your question).

So after this code, $data['users_active'], $data['users_inactive'] and $ouser all contain a reference to the same object. You can see that when you dump the variables, the object # will be the same for all three.

This means you can't just re-use a model object like this. Either create a new one, or clone the existing one.