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Once their new site is done, this will be up there as the intro!

Once we finished stripping the car, it went over to Reactive Chassis Co. who is building the roll cage for me. Once we get the car back with the cage in it, we can fit the dash back in and then have it made in Carbon Fiber. Also we can then work on getting the seats mounted and braced in the car.

Along the way here, we have been receiving some great parts….

Check out these pics:

CP 90mm Pistons

Rotora 6Pot Calipers

Rotora 330mm 2 Piece Rotors

Cobra Evolution S GT Seats

Tial SS GT30 Turbine Housing

Tial MV-S Wastegate

Tial BOV

Carbon Fiber Driveshaft

Z32 300ZX Tranny

Mazworx Sleeved/Prepped Race SR20 Block

Synapse Motorsport Top Mount Manifold

Hopefully we can make some real progress once I get the car back from the roll cage builder.

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One thing that it doesn’t inherently support is saving the state between webpages, which is something I had wanted since I’m using it as a menu, not just for content display. Functionally, I knew what had to be done in order to get it to save state. It was obvious that I needed to use cookies and some quick javascript to save what menu was open. I then came across the jQuery Cookie plugin, which really simplifies working with cookies in jQuery.

Setting a cookie with the plugin is as simple as follows:

$.cookie('cookiename', 'cookiecontents');

The accordion menu has an event change attribute, which can be set to a function or just inline code. Using both this feature and the cookie plugin, it was very simple to write the code that I needed in order to get the result I wanted. Here is the code and I will explain it below:

// accordion menu
$('#menu').accordion({
	header: 'h3',
	navigation: true,
	active: '.selected',
	autoHeight: false,
	clearStyle: true,
	collapsibe: true,
	alwaysOpen: false,
	animated: 'slide',
	change: function(event,ui) {
		var hid = ui.newHeader.children('a').attr('id');
	if (hid === undefined) {
		$.cookie('menustate', null);
	} else {
		$.cookie('menustate', hid, { expires: 2 });
	}
}
});

// check cookie for accordion state
if($.cookie('menustate')) {
	$('#menu').accordion('option', 'animated', false);
	$('#menu').accordion('activate', $('#' + $.cookie('menustate')).parent('h3'));
	$('#menu').accordion('option', 'animated', 'slide');
}

The first section is pretty straightforward. It defines and applies the accordion menu to a div tag with an id of menu. All of the various options are laid out in the Accordion docs and I just set some of the standard ones in order to get the look and feel that I wanted. The important part is the change option:

change: function(event,ui) {
		var hid = ui.newHeader.children('a').attr('id');
	if (hid === undefined) {
		$.cookie('menustate', null);
	} else {
		$.cookie('menustate', hid, { expires: 2 });
	}

Here you can see that I check the value of the menu that is open to see if it is undefined, which would mean the menu is closed. If it is open, it will have a value in there, so I store that in a cookie called “menustate” for use when the page is reloaded.

// check cookie for accordion state
if($.cookie('menustate')) {
         $('#menu').accordion('option', 'animated', false);
         $('#menu').accordion('activate', $('#' + $.cookie('menustate')).parent('h3'));
         $('#menu').accordion('option', 'animated', 'slide');

Upon page reload I have it check the “menustate” cookie to see if it has been set or not. If it is, I first turn off the animation so the visitor does not see it open again, then I call the activate method to open the one with the id that is stored in the cookie. Lastly, I reenable the animation. It works great!

Unfortunately, I have no completed the True Negative site yet, so I do not have an example of this working. As soon as I finish the site, I’ll update this blog post with a link to it. Hope this helps anyone trying to do this in a simple way. Thanks for reading!

Rick is going to start working on tearing the motor down, and I’m going to send some of the engine oil to Blackstone Labs for analysis. I’ve trailered the car back with me so I can continue to strip the interior and sound deadening. It goes to Reactive Chassis soon for cage work.