beginner getting loopy

[Anon]

Hi I'm a novice programmer doing some very rudimentary php programming. My site has a MySQL database and I've built an admin page to add records using the following logic:

if ($submit)
then process data
else generate form

This has worked well for me. Now, I'm trying to password protect the page by using the same logic but adding an outer loop

if ($entered)
if password correct
if ($submit)
then process data
else generate form
else print 'password is wrong'
else generate password form

The outer loop or the password protection loop works fine, but once I get to the innermost loop, I get a problem. The first pass is fine, without $submit the code generates the data processing form; but once submit is pressed the program jumps not to the inner if statement but to the first line and runs the outermost loop again.

Any help would be very much appreciated, and please remember you're speaking with an idiot.

Thanks!

[Anon]

why not this:

if ($submit)
if password correct
then process data
else print 'password is wrong'
else generate form

not sure about this->else generate password form

[jc94062]

"else generate password form"

probably refers to the form to fill the info in, I do something similar, I include a password form so that if the info it correct it includes the desired page instead of the desired page and the form that was on there, without having to use exit statements, probably didn't know about them I was so new at that time.

Anyways...

if ($entered)
if password correct
if ($submit)
then process data
else { generate form
print 'password is wrong'
generate password form }

that what you want? Try posting the code to give me more on an idea, I can't tell from the simple diagram above.