# Why don't tutorial files EVER work?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-dont-tutorial-files-ever-work/188134>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [May 4, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-dont-tutorial-files-ever-work/188134 "2006-05-04T19:26:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![zicemaster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@zicemaster](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/zicemaster)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 7:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-dont-tutorial-files-ever-work/188134/1 "2006-05-04T19:26:47Z")

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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/](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…

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**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.
 

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