Bibtex author names not parsed correctly

[RaulMurillo]

It seems this automatic detection is not working on the current version (9.0.0).

Here is an example bibtex:

@book{testBook,
title = {Sample Book},
author = {Murillo, Raul and Botella, Guillermo},
year  = {2024},
date = {2024-06-04},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {book}
}

And the output in my Wordpress is the following:

Murillo, Raul; Botella, Guillermo

Sample Book Book

2024.

However, the proper author names should be Raul Murillo; Guillermo Botella. I am using the following options to display the publication:

[tplist show_tags_as="none" author_name="simple" editor_name="simple" author_separator=";" editor_separator=","]

Any ideas about what is happening?

Originally posted by @RaulMurillo in https://github.com/winkm89/teachPress/issues/15#issuecomment-1573775013

[winkm89]

Hi Raul, I've tested the example several times, an it works as expected (for example the first author is imported correctly as Raul Murillo). So it seems that this is not a general bug.

Which PHP version you are using?

[RaulMurillo]

Current;y we are using PHP 7.4.33 Is it possible that this old version is causing the issue?

[RaulMurillo]

In fact, I updated PHP to the latest 8.2 version, but the display of authors is still in the <last name>, <name> form.

[winkm89]

Ok, that excludes PHP as a source of this error. It's really strange.

Do you import the bibtex entry as a file or as a input into the textfield? If it's a file, could you upload a sample file?

[RaulMurillo]

Ok, maybe that is the key to this topic. I am importing the bibtex entries with the Auto-publish utility of the plugin. More specifically, I am using the following URL, which displays bibtex from Google scholar in the above format: https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=export_citations&user=QzdxUe8AAAAJ&citsig=ACseELIAAAAAZIg7S31BrlDsNgjlutO25e2uokM&hl=es

I realized that if I import the same bibtex entries manually, the error disappears. But with Auto-publish, the names and last names are flipped.

[fabricebg]

I can confirm that the code for the Auto-publish feature uses a default parsing policy for authors that creates this problem. A way to specify the kind of author parsing for a given source (or, more simply, for all sources) should be added to the current code to fix this.

[RaulMurillo]

Thanks! That last commit solved it, and updating to the latest version (9.0.2) was enough.