Why don't tutorial files EVER work?

Why? LoL… Ok… I have tried downloading two of these RSS feeds.

I downloaded the MySQL one, and correctly installed it on my apache server… Nada, nothing… Just sits there! I correctly placed all passwords, it confirmed that it installed correctly too!

I then downloaded the text file one thinking… “Hmm… Nothing can go wrong with this one…”
http://www.flash-db.com/rss/

They both fail… I don’t know if they would work with RSS 2.0, might have to redo the parsing a little.

Anyone know of any Flash PHP5/RSS 2.0 Tutorials/Sample files that actually work?

Btw… I also uploaded the textfile one to a php5 supported server, nada!!! It really should have worked…


**Requirements**: PHP 4.0 or above with XML support. Flash 6 Player
  **How to Install
  **Unzip your files in a server readable directory and just load the RssReader.html.    To modify the loaded feeds, edit the Rssfeeds.txt file.