I am trying to grab certain attributes from an xml page. It works fine on my own desktop comp with a localhost server. When I upload to my website, which uses mySQL, it fails. I am new to php and seem to be stuck because it doesn't output an error.

Here is the code: (this was copy/pasted from somewhere on the net and edited by me to fit my needs)

Code:

$xml = new XMLReader();
    $xml->open($new_link); // Declare and open the xml file
    $xml->setParserProperty(2,true); // This seems a little unclear to me - but it worked :)

    while ($xml->read()) {
		echo 'test1';
        switch ($xml->name) {
        case "name":
            $xml->read();
            $conf["name"] = $xml->value;
			$item_name = $conf["name"]; 
			echo $item_name;
            $xml->read();
            break;
        case "quality":
            $xml->read();
            $conf["quality"] = $xml->value;
			$raw_quality = $conf["quality"];
			if ($raw_quality == 'Common')
				$item_quality = 1;
			elseif ($raw_quality == 'Uncommon')
				$item_quality = 2;
			elseif ($raw_quality == 'Rare')
				$item_quality = 3;
			elseif ($raw_quality == 'Epic')
				$item_quality = 4;
			elseif ($raw_quality == 'Legendary')
				$item_quality = 5;
			else 
				$item_quality = 0;
            $xml->read();
            break;
        case "subclass":
            $xml->read();
            $conf["subclass"] = $xml->value;
			$item_subclass = $conf["subclass"];
			echo $item_subclass;
            $xml->read();
            break;
		case "inventorySlot":
            $xml->read();
            $conf["inventorySlot"] = $xml->value;
			$item_slot = $conf["inventorySlot"]; 
			echo $item_slot;
            $xml->read();
            break;
		case "link":
            $xml->read();
            $conf["link"] = $xml->value;
			$item_link = $conf["link"];
			echo $item_link;
            $xml->read();
            break;
		echo "$xml->read()";
        }
    }

    $xml->close();

After this, my code grabs the new $item_xxxx variables and inserts them into the database. Even if I try to echo the variables after this XML Reader, they won't show. Again, I have no issues on my home computer with localhost server. Is there something I am missing? Or is there abetter way to do this?