Last week my code was running fine and now (without changing anything) it is no longer able to parse the elements out of the XML.

The response from the ssi tool:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<ipbsource><topic id="32">
        <title>Test topic</title>
        <lastposter id="1">Drake</lastposter>
        <starter id="18">Drake</starter>
        <forum id="3">Updates</forum>
        <date timestamp="1345600720">22 August 2012 - 03:58 AM</date>
    </topic>

</ipbsource>

enter code here

Update: Switched to SimpleXML but I can't extract data from the xml:

        $xml = file_get_contents('http://site.com/forum/ssi.php?a=out&f=2&show=10&type=xml');
        $xml = new SimpleXMLElement($xml);
        $item_array = array();
        var_dump($xml);
        foreach($xml->topic as $el) {
            var_dump($el);
            echo 'Title: ' . $el->title;
}

The var_dump output:

object(SimpleXMLElement)#1 (1) { [0]=> string(1) " " }