Website hacked. Code can't find database. PHP LOADER ERROR

No doubt, GoDaddy is a wretched company. I personally have rued how Bob Parsons went from cool and struggling accountant-turned-programmer who created a pre-Quicken $25 application in the 1980s called Money Counts to complete Internet billionaire assholio who dumped his wife Martha for a young floozie when he got rich and she got fat twenty years later.

That said, that's a typical message when your database settings are wrong. You should have some kind of access panel to your hosting account, whether cPanel, Ensim, or something else. That panel should give you access to PHPMyAdmin or some other SQL manager. Verify your settings, and verify the database is there and intact.

Hey, don't work without a PHP debugger. Several free IDEs have this features built in. Two are NetBeans and CodeLobster. Without a debugger, it's like you're driving with a blindfold on -- you are going to crash!