Javascript equivalent of PHP mysql_real_escape_string

[RIRedinPA]

Does Javascript have something like this, that'll make a string compliant for mysql (i.e escape apostrophes, quotes, etc.

[Mchl]

There's only escape() method, but it won't suffice for mysql. You'd have to do some replacing by yourself.

[Psycho]

There shouldn't be any need to make a string db safe on the client-side. The data has to go through server-side code before it can go to the database. Can you elaborate on why you want to handle this through javascript?

[RIRedinPA]

It doesn't necessarily have to be db safe, I'm passing a string to javascript and it is breaking on apostrophes and stuff.

 

Escape seems to take care of it for me.

[lemmin]

It is actually pretty simple to write one. Just use regex to find an replace any characters you don't want:

function escape_string(str)
{
return str.replace(/['\"]/g, "");
}

That would just remove all single and double quotes, but you can have it do whatever you want.