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I want to serve a page that already has data populated from PHP, and use AngularJS to edit and update this data, but initially I don't want to load the data into AngularJS.

Is there a way to disable data binding on load so that AngularJS doesn't replace the data that's already there, but enable it later when I edit some data and want to update the element?

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  • That's very un-Angular-y, the purpose of Angular is data-binding. Any reason you're looking to do it this way? A better way would be to load the page, fire back a service and request your data, then display said data. Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 14:20
  • The reason is that this page is going to be cached, and I want to avoid any request to the API on page load, so the cached page needs to have all the data already. Commented Oct 4, 2013 at 14:57

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May be you should to populate the template only using angularjs. Why would you want duplicate work by doing serverside templating and client side templating? I agree with @tymeJV. It is very un-Angular-y,

Or if you really want, you would want to have an init_function inside the angularjs controller that will be called only on edit and will load data when it does that. But I am not very convinced

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I have an init function in place, but the problem is that AngularJS removes the data that's already in the HTML if there's no data loaded into the scope object.
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You can use the ng-init attribute. This post describes how you can use it.

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