[ProjectJustice]

I own a website that has been using php includes on the front page, cutenews as the news program, and phpbb as the forum program. Suddenly, today when I go to look at my site, all of the php pages appear in code not the page. I decided to contact my host, and was told: "Unfortunately, troubleshooting your PHP script would be outside the scope of support. For further information and possible resolution to your issue we recommend consulting the help center and documentation for PHP located on the software creator's main website: (http://www.php.net)." I don't know how to do that or what even went wrong. I have only a basic understanding of php and have only been using php scripts and basic includes. If someone could please talk me through this, explain it to me, or anything else that would help it would be VERY helpful. Thanks in advance.

UPDATE: It just started working again, so I'm Ok. But it would still be helpful if someone could explain this to me in case it occurs again or what it is.

[mab]

Since this stopped and started on its own, it was likely a global issue with the hosting company (perhaps they were updating the PHP version or they had someone hack into the system and make changes that caused PHP to stop, such as removing the .php extension from the list of file types that are parsed by php.) If your control panel has a setting to enable/disable PHP support for your account, this could have gotten disabled, perhaps due to a corrupt database and/or someone hacked into the system and did this on purpose to disable the web sites...

Another possibility, given the unhelpful answer they gave you, was that someone who thought they knew what they were doing at the hosting company made a change, either deliberately or by accident. A helpful hosting company, even if it is something that is out of their control, should have responded that they would look into the issue, especially when told that PHP pages that were working suddenly started appearing as the actual PHP code (this is a very specific symptom that the PHP parser is not operating.)

[ProjectJustice]

Thank you for your help. I didn't change anything to screw it up and my site is very new and I don't have enemies, so I didn't think it was hacking. That's why I contacted my host and got that response. It started working again within 15-20 mins after getting a response from them, which leads me to believe that it was their mistake. I haven't had problems since and am hopeful It won't again. Thank you very much for the response and help.