dumb php and mysql :(

okay I found a little script thing for a newsupdater thing that I thought would be neat to use, and of course it has no documentation, and of course even though it updated itself very nicely on its little standalone page, when I tried to include it on another page, it just gives me a weird look and says "Connection Failed".

And really I have no clue what this means, it doesn't quote any errors in various lines of the php files, or anything like that, and I'm not sure what you guys would need to know to assess wtp it's doing, so I guess that would be a good starting place.

[edit-- hang on, I found a couple of comments, and maybe they'll fix everything ;ooooooo]

[edit1-- sweet, now we're getting somewhere, I'll close this until I get stuck again]

Ah the sweet sweet sights of success. ^_^