Login Form MySQL Injection Protection

How to Protect Against MySQL Injection on User Login Form

The below mysql database query is to to protect your database against MySQL injection through user login forms. This preventive action make spammers stay away from running the database query on your database with out your knowledge

Query to Protect Against MySQL Injection via Login Form

$username = stripslashes($username);
$password = stripslashes($password);
$username = mysql_real_escape_string($username);
$password = mysql_real_escape_string($password);