How to execute angular controller function on page load?

Try this?

$scope.$on('$viewContentLoaded', function() {
    //call it here
});

I could never get $viewContentLoaded to work for me, and ng-init should really only be used in an ng-repeat (according to the documentation), and also calling a function directly in a controller can cause errors if the code relies on an element that hasn't been defined yet.

This is what I do and it works for me:

$scope.$on('$routeChangeSuccess', function () {
  // do something
});

Unless you're using ui-router. Then it's:

$scope.$on('$stateChangeSuccess', function () {
  // do something
});

angular.element(document).ready(function () {

    // your code here

});

Dimitri's/Mark's solution didn't work for me but using the $timeout function seems to work well to ensure your code only runs after the markup is rendered.

# Your controller, including $timeout

var $scope.init = function(){
 //your code
}

$timeout($scope.init)

Hope it helps.

You can do this if you want to watch the viewContentLoaded DOM object to change and then do something. using $scope.$on works too but differently especially when you have one page mode on your routing.

 $scope.$watch('$viewContentLoaded', function(){
    // do something
 });

You can use angular's $window object:

$window.onload = function(e) {
  //your magic here
}

Another alternative:

var myInit = function () {
    //...
};
angular.element(document).ready(myInit);

(via http://stackoverflow.com/a/30258904/148412)

When using $routeProvider you can resolve on .state and bootstrap your service. This is to say, you are going to load Controller and View, only after resolve your Service:

ui-routes

 .state('nn', {
        url: "/nn",
        templateUrl: "views/home/n.html",
        controller: 'nnCtrl',
        resolve: {
          initialised: function (ourBootstrapService, $q) {

            var deferred = $q.defer();

            ourBootstrapService.init().then(function(initialised) {
              deferred.resolve(initialised);
            });
            return deferred.promise;
          }
        }
      })

Service

function ourBootstrapService() {

 function init(){ 
    // this is what we need
 }
}

Found Dmitry Evseev answer quite useful.

Case 1 : Using angularJs alone:
To execute a method on page load, you can use ng-init in the view and declare init method in controller, having said that use of heavier function is not recommended, as per the angular Docs on ng-init:

This directive can be abused to add unnecessary amounts of logic into your templates. There are only a few appropriate uses of ngInit, such as for aliasing special properties of ngRepeat, as seen in the demo below; and for injecting data via server side scripting. Besides these few cases, you should use controllers rather than ngInit to initialize values on a scope.

HTML:

<div ng-controller="searchController()">
    <!-- renaming view code here, including the search box and the buttons -->
</div>

Controller:

app.controller('SearchCtrl', function(){

    var doSearch = function(keyword){
        //Search code here
    }

    doSearch($routeParams.searchKeyword);
})

Warning : Do not use this controller for another view meant for a different intention as it will cause the search method be executed there too.

Case 2 : Using Ionic:
The above code will work, just make sure the view cache is disabled in the route.js as:

route.js

.state('app', {
    url           : '/search',
    cache         : false, //disable caching of the view here
    templateUrl   : 'templates/search.html'   ,
    controller    : 'SearchCtrl'
  })

Hope this helps

Yet another alternative if you have a controller just specific to that page:

(function(){
    //code to run
}());

I had the same problem and only this solution worked for me (it runs a function after a complete DOM has been loaded). I use this for scroll to anchor after page has been loaded:

angular.element(window.document.body).ready(function () {

                        // Your function that runs after all DOM is loaded

                    });