# \[help needed a.s.a.p.!\] PHP XML file acting very strange

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-a-s-a-p-php-xml-file-acting-very-strange/292089>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [July 9, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-a-s-a-p-php-xml-file-acting-very-strange/292089 "2009-07-09T20:16:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![mentha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a3d4f5/32.png) [@mentha](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mentha)\
**Post date:** [July 9, 2009, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-needed-a-s-a-p-php-xml-file-acting-very-strange/292089/1 "2009-07-09T20:16:33Z")

</div>

The hosting provider of one of my clients has had an update recently [unfortunately, I don’t know exactly what], and now my SQL/PHP-built XML file is acting up.  
One moment the content is there, the next it’s not… It only happens with the content that in the XML has a CDATA tag. The script has been working without a problem for the last 3 years… Haven’t heard from the client for the same amount of time.

As the client has a big meeting tomorrow, in which she needs her website, I’m in a slight hurry/panic here [22.15 in Holland at the moment].  
Any quick ideas? Anyone? Please?

[edit] So it’s not just de XML files, but a simple PHP echo in another file as well… Title: no prob, text: gone and the back again.

I have never encountered anything like this before…