Something messed up with foreach as $item

[eluser]Lockzi[/eluser]
I'm trying to store some RSS feeds into a database of mine for fun...

Now I'm having a huge-a problem with $descr for some reason...

Code:

foreach ($this->simplepie->get_items() as $item) {
    $href    = $item->get_link();
    $title    = $item->get_title();
    $descr    = $item->get_description();
    
    
    if($this->rss_model->checkNewFeed($href))
    {
        die(var_dump($descr));
        $this->rss_model->insertNewFeed($feedName, $title, $href, $descr);
    }
}

That code produces the following:

string(0) ""

Sure... That make's it look like there's no description... But watch this!

Code:

foreach ($this->simplepie->get_items() as $item) {
    $href    = $item->get_link();
    $title    = $item->get_title();
    $descr    = $item->get_description();
        die(var_dump($descr));
            
    if($this->rss_model->checkNewFeed($href))
    {
        $this->rss_model->insertNewFeed($feedName, $title, $href, $descr);
    }
}

That code dumps this...

string(159) "The title of that feed item bla bla bla"

and I've checked this quite alot, and my conclusion is that whenever I use $this-> somewhere (*edit* between setting it and reading it *edit*) it looses the information in $descr.

Is that a bug?
Is there a way to get around it since I'd like to keep the checkNewFeed() code in the model to keep the database connections in the same place?

Regards,
Christoffer Wallenius