Run a controller function whenever a view is opened/shown

Question

I\'m building an app with angular+ionic that uses a classic three-button menu at the bottom with three ion-tabs in it. When a user clicks a tab, that template opens through

Answer 1

By default, your controllers were cache and that is why your controller only fired once. To turn off caching for a certain controller you have to modify your .config(..).state and set the cache option to false. eg :

  .state('myApp', {
    cache: false,
    url: "/form",
    views: {
      'menuContent': {
        templateUrl: "templates/form.html",
        controller: 'formCtrl'
      }
    }
  })

for further reading please visit http://ionicframework.com/docs/api/directive/ionNavView/