How to get param from one controller to another? - angularjs

Question

My question is best explained when I straight go to the code.
HTML part:
<div class="panel panel-default post" ng-repeat="post in posts">
<div class="panel-body">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-sm-2">
<a class="post-avatar thumbnail" href="/profile#/{[ post.profileID ]}">
<div class="text-center">{[ user.fullname ]}</div>
</a>
</div>
</div>
</div>
When I click on the /profile#/{[ post.profileID ]} link - it takes me to the profile page. All good here.
However, I am using ngView so I have separated it like this:
<div class="col-md-3">
<div>Some HTML stuff</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div ng-view></div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-3">
<div>Some HTML stuff</div>
</div>
My ngView makes use of the /profile#/{[ post.profileID ]} param and I use it to display whatever I have to display.
The problem:
I can get the profileID param in my angular controller but once I get it, how will I be able to pass it onto other controllers?
My controller looks like the below:
var profileApp = angular.module('profileApp', ['ngRoute']);
profileApp.config(function($routeProvider) {
$routeProvider
.when('/:id', {
templateUrl : 'partial/profile/feed.html',
controller : 'mainController'
})
.when('/posts:id', {
templateUrl : 'partial/profile/posts.html',
controller : 'postsController'
});
});
profileApp.controller('mainController', ['$scope', '$http', '$routeParams', function($scope, $routeParams){
console.log($routeParams.id);
}]);
profileApp.controller('postsController', ['$scope', '$routeParams', function($scope, $routeParams){
console.log($routeParams.id);
}]);
As you can see, I get get the param passed from the HTML link and use it in the mainController but how will I get the param to be a link in the col-md-3 (just like the original /profile#/{[ post.profileID ]})?
Hope this makes sense. It's has been driving me nuts!
Thanks

Answer 1

Why don't you just edit your partial HTML pages and put the columns in it.
For partial/profile/feed.html :
<div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div>feed stuff</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-3">
</div>
</div>
And partial/profile/posts.html could be :
<div>
<div class="col-md-6">
</div>
<div class="col-md-3">
<div>posts stuff</div>
</div>
</div>

Answer 2

So I did some research into this and I just ended up using services.
See below for the answer:
profileApp.service('globalParams', function() {
var profileID = '';
return {
getProfileID: function() {
return profileID;
},
setProfileID: function(value) {
profileID = value;
}
};
});
You then pass the service into the dependencies in the controllers, like below:
profileApp.controller('mainController', ['$scope', 'globalParams', function($scope, globalParams){
//some code
};
And you can call the functions for getting and setting the variables.