Adding object to array, displays a count of 0
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Here's the code I'm running. 

Basically I scrape data, and place them into simple POCO classes. At the end of the loop I want to add the `$newItem` object to the `$parsedItems` array. I'm new to PHP, can this be a scoping issue?

    <h1>Scraper Noticias</h1>
    
    <?php
    
    include('simple_html_dom.php');
    
    class News {
        var $image;
        var $fechanoticia;
        var $title;
        var $description;
        var $sourceurl;
    
        function get_image( ) {
            return $this->image;
        }
    
        function set_image ($new_image) {
            $this->image = $new_image;
        }
    
        function get_fechanoticia( ) {
            return $this->fechanoticia;
        }
    
        function set_fechanoticia ($new_fechanoticia) {
            $this->fechanoticia = $new_fechanoticia;
        }
    
        function get_title( ) {
            return $this->title;
        }
    
        function set_title ($new_title) {
            $this->title = $new_title;
        }
    
        function get_description( ) {
            return $this->description;
        }
    
        function set_description ($new_description) {
            $this->description = $new_description;
        }
    
        function get_sourceurl( ) {
            return $this->sourceurl;
        }
    
        function set_sourceurl ($new_sourceurl) {
            $this->sourceurl = $new_sourceurl;
        }
    }
    
    // Create DOM from URL or file
    $initialPage = file_get_html('http://www.uvm.cl/noticias_mas.shtml');
    
    
    // Declare variable to hold all parsed news items.
    $parsedNews = array();
    
    // Since the University blog page has 262 pages, we'll iterate through that.
    for ($i = 2; $i <= 5; $i++) {
        $url = "http://www.uvm.cl/noticias_mas.shtml?AA_SL_Session=34499aef1fc7a296fb666dcc7b9d8d05&scrl=1&scr_scr_Go=" . $i;
        $page = file_get_html($url);
        parse_page_for_news($page);
    }
    
    echo "<h1>Final Count:" . count($parsedNews) . "</h1>";
    
    // Fuction receives an HTML Dom object, and the library works agianst that single HTML object.
    function parse_page_for_news ($page) {
    
        foreach($page->find('#cont2 p') as $element) {
        
            $newItem = new News;
    
            // Parse the news item's thumbnail image.
            foreach ($element->find('img') as $image) {
                $newItem->set_image($image->src);
                //echo $newItem->get_image() . "<br />";
            }
    
            // Parse the news item's post date.
            foreach ($element->find('span.fechanoticia') as $fecha) {
                $newItem->set_fechanoticia($fecha->innertext);
                //echo $newItem->get_fechanoticia() . "<br />";
            }
    
            // Parse the news item's title.
            foreach ($element->find('a') as $title) {
                $newItem->set_title($title->innertext);
                //echo $newItem->get_title() . "<br />";
            }
    
            // Parse the news item's source URL link.
            foreach ($element->find('a') as $sourceurl) {
                $newItem->set_sourceurl("http://www.uvm.cl/" . $sourceurl->href);
            }
    
            // Parse the news items' description text.
            foreach ($element->find('a') as $link) {
                $link->outertext = '';
            }
    
            foreach ($element->find('span') as $link) {
                $link->outertext = '';
            }
    
            foreach ($element->find('img') as $link) {
                $link->outertext = '';
            }
    
            $newItem->set_description($element->innertext);
    
            // Add the newly formed NewsItem to the $parsedNews object.
            $parsedNews[] = $newItem;
    
            print_r($newItem);
            echo "<br /><br /><br />";
    
        }
    } 
    
    ?>

In my current understanding of the language, since the `$parsedItems` object is declared outside of the function, shouldn't it correctly be added?

Why would my count() call return 0, as if it had no objects in it?