title: Angularjs using $routeProvider without ng-view
body: <p>I have a simple single page app that shows images on it. </p>
  
  <p>On first load the page is blank and people add their own images however if they then return to the page with their saved id in the url then I want the page to grab the previous model.</p>
  
  <p>Now all my previous attempts to use routeProvider have failed unless I put ng-view somewhere in the page. But this then affects the scopes that are inside the ng-view scope.</p>
  
  <p>Basically I need to respond differently on the page depending if there is an id in the url or not but I'm not changing the view and I need to get the id from the route parameters.</p>
  
  <p>So I was just wondering how you guys would go about doing this as I seem to be barking up the wrong trees! Any help would be much appreciated.</p>