Search Box linked to another site not working

Question

I somehow managed to link a search box to the search box form another website, the problem I have it's that when I put the word I'm looking for it does send me to the page and loads my results but immediately the page reloads to a shorter version of the URL I used to link the search box.

I'm linking the searchbox to a private/corporate sharepoint, and I really need to make it work.

Do you have any idea how could I make it not reload the page everytime?

Answer 1

An easy way would be to add a "Web Part" to Sharepoint with some Javascript that will :

• get your keyword you put in sharepoint url
• then in JS you put the keyword in Sharepoint search box, and click on submit

So in 2 steps :

1. when you type a keyword in your search box outside SharePoint, and click on "Search" button, it redirects to sharepoint page (with search box) with your keyword in the url, like this : ?search=

2. then you add some Javascript in SharePoint for retrieving your keyword in sharepoint url and fill sharepoint search engine and submit it.

Code for getting the keyword from sharepoint url :

var getUrlParameter = function getUrlParameter(sParam) {
    var sPageURL = decodeURIComponent(window.location.search.substring(1)),
        sURLVariables = sPageURL.split('&'),
        sParameterName,
        i;

    for (i = 0; i < sURLVariables.length; i++) {
        sParameterName = sURLVariables[i].split('=');

        if (sParameterName[0] === sParam) {
            return sParameterName[1] === undefined ? true : sParameterName[1];
        }
    }
};

var keyword = getUrlParameter('keyword ');

And then :

$("#sharepoint_searchbox").val(keyword);
$("#sharepoint_submit_subtton").click();