PHP Username and Password verification - php

Question

I'm currently working on a class project where I have to verify the username and password against a database. I stored the values of the username and password in individual arrays and I'm trying to verify that the user input matches one of the values in there. However, that's not happening, and I'm not sure how to fix it. Thanks for your help!
<?
connectDB();
$sql = "SELECT* FROM employee";
$result = mysqli_query($db,$sql) or die ("SQL error: " . mysqli_error());
$row = mysqli_fetch_array($result);
$password = array();
$username = array();
while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
{
$password[] = $row['emp_pword'];
$username[] = $row['emp_username'];
}
var_dump($password);
var_dump($username);
?>
<?php if (isset($_REQUEST['page1_submit'])) {
if (($_REQUEST['pword'] == $password) and ($_REQUEST['user'] == $username)) {
header('location:home_agent.php');
} else { ?>
<h2>Wrong Password! Try again.</h2>
<form method="POST" action="login.php">
<table class="info">
<tr>
<th>Username:</th>
<td><input type="text" NAME="username" />
</td>
<th>Password:</th>
<td><input type="password" NAME="pword" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
<input class="submit" type="submit" name="page2_submit" value="SUBMIT" />
<input class="submit" type="reset" value="RESET" />
</form>
<?php }

Answer 1

ME TOO THINKS YOU ARE WRONG .
YOU JUST EXECUTE QUERY
" SELECT * FROM TBLE_NAME WHERE username=$username AND password=$password"
check this query gives a non empty list for verify login
thats all.