Weird characters throwning off rss feed scrape

I was hoping someone could help modify this.

The php below works well when scraping until it runs across a headline with a weird character like a "&" and a few others. Is there a fix for the code below?

Thanks in advance.

<?php

// Screen scraping your way into RSS
// Example script, by Dennis Pallett
// http://www.phpit.net/tutorials/screenscrap-rss

// Get page
$url = 

"http://www.urlgoeshere.com/";
$data = implode("", file($url)); 

// Get content items
preg_match_all ("/<div class=\"headline\">([^`]*?)<\/a/", $data, $matches);

// Begin feed
header ("Content-Type: text/xml; charset=ISO-8859-1");
echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"ISO-8859-1\" ?>\n";
?>
<rss version="2.0"
  xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
  xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
  xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"
  xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
    <channel>
        <title>News</title>
        <description>The latest news from</description>
        <link>http://www.urlgoeshere.com</link>
        <language>en-us</language>


<?
// Loop through each content item
foreach ($matches[0] as $match) {
    // First, get title
    preg_match ("/\>([^`]*?)<\/a/", $match, $temp);
    $title = $temp['1'];
    $title = strip_tags($title);
    $title = trim($title);

    // Second, get url
    preg_match ("/<a href=\"([^`]*?)\">/", $match, $temp);
    $url = $temp['1'];
    $url = trim($url);

    // Echo RSS XML
    echo "<item>\n";
        echo "\t\t\t<title>" . strip_tags($title) . "</title>\n";
        echo "\t\t\t<link>http://www.urlgoeshere.com" . strip_tags($url) . "</link>\n";
        echo "\t\t\t<description>" . strip_tags($text) . "</description>\n";
        echo "\t\t\t<content:encoded><![CDATA[ \n";
        echo $text . "\n";
        echo " ]]></content:encoded>\n";
        echo "\t\t\t<dc:creator>" . strip_tags($author) . "</dc:creator>\n";
    echo "\t\t</item>\n";
}
?>
</channel>
</rss>

PHP:

 

replace & with &