saving and loading the ajax state of a page - php

Question

I'm working on an ajax loading function on a Wordpress single page portfolio.
The principle is that when you click a thumbnail in the gallery, it opens a container (#DrawerContainer) and fetch the ajax content of this article into it. With a lot of help, I'm already able to open the drawer and load the post content when I click a thumbnail.
Here is a fiddle if you want to see it working (the ajax will not load but it works locally). http://jsfiddle.net/RF6df/24/
The part I'm working on now: I need my site to be crawlable and the urls to be shareable. If I give http://mywebsite.com/#!project5 to someone, I need project5 content to be opened when he loads the page.
I thought the hash-bang (#!) urls was the way to go to make this work. With the code below (commented on the jsfiddle), I can update the url and add the hash of the clicked thumbnail.
var pathname = $(this).find('a')[0].href.split('/'),
l = pathname.length;
pathname = pathname[l-1] || pathname[l-2];
window.location.hash = "#!" + pathname;
But when I load a page, the ajax state isn't remembered. I assumed it was because my ajax container was only loaded on click event, but there is no change when I add a persistant container in the php.
Is there a way to load the page with a post content already displayed, or to open the #DrawerContainer when the page is loading a hash-bang url?
Please keep in mind that I'm just learning jquery and ajax. So I'd really appreciate if you explain or comment a little bit what you do, I'll for sure learn at the same time... :)

Answer 1

on onload you should check the window.location.hash and trigger a click on the particular link/div.
$(document).ready(function() {
var hash = window.location.hash;
if ( hash.length > 0 ) {
hash = hash.replace('#' , '' , hash );
$('a[rel="'+hash+'"]').trigger('click');
}
});

Answer 2

I have used the following on sites where I want to trigger via hash changes.
First I bind a hashchange event to get the hash value
$(window).bind('hashchange', function(o){
url = window.location.hash.substring(1);
o.preventDefault();
if (!url) {
return;
}
}
Then I trigger the hashchange when I want - in your case when the page loads i.e. on document ready.
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$(window).trigger('hashchange');
});
You can then use the hash value in your function that loads the correct content