jquery - ajax application - multiple hashes?

Question

So some web apps I've made have little "features" of ajax. Simple things usually, so I've only ever needed one hash (e.g. example.com/products#shirts). What if I wanted to have the "products" page loaded through ajax too? I know that it doesn't need to be in the hash, but for some functionality I prefer it (for user history and following urls and such).

Is there a plugin that somehow could handle making hashes and parsing them to get some name-value pairs or something? Or should I just do this myself?

So I could have something like (example.com/#products-shirts)

Not that I care how the properties are laid out in the url...

Suggestions?

Answer 1

I think what you're after is the jQuery BBQ plugin, it's for exactly this (storage/history in the hash, including name/value pairs).