WebSQL injection prevention with Javascript

Question

I've search around but not found an answer to this one.

Is there a function in Javascript similar to PHP's mysql_real_escape_string to make safe user inputs before writing them to a WebSQL database?

If not, does anyone know of a custom made function out there that I could use?

UPDATE: So it seems like there is no native function, so I have written:

function sql_real_escape_string(val){
    var val = val.replace('"','"');
    val = val.replace('\'','’');
    return val;
}

Are there any other characters that I should be replacing to be on the safe side?

Answer 1

The best answer to handling user input when inserting into databases is to employ paramaterization. The Web SQL API supports this:

var db = openDatabase('mydb', '1.0', 'my database', 2 * 1024 * 1024);
db.transaction(function (tx) {
  tx.executeSql('INSERT INTO foo (id, text) VALUES (?, ?)', [id, userValue]);
});

Instead of this:

db.transaction(function (tx) {
  tx.executeSql('INSERT INTO foo (id, text) VALUES (1, "user-entered value")');
});