Tanks Callender
already managed to do what I wanted thanks to your help.
SO I would like to know one more thing, is it possible to check for ionic binding to the internet from the device? I was trying to use the plugin cordova not yet got it working 
also saw your post here How to use Cordova plugins with Ionic Framework, the Angular way
but what the variable var checkConnection gets the value = function up ()} ;
once again, thanks for the help