How to use dependency injection in Zend Framework?

Question

Currently I am trying to learn the Zend Framework and therefore I bought the book \"Zend Framework in Action\".

In chapter 3, a basic model and controller is introduced

Answer 1

I'm currently working on the same question, and after deep research I've decide to use Symfony Dependency Injection component. You can get good info from official website http://symfony.com/doc/current/book/service_container.html.

I've build custom getContainer() method in bootstrap, which resturns now service container, and it simply can be used in controllers like

public function init()
{
    $sc = $this->getInvokeArg('bootstrap')->getContainer();
    $this->placesService = $sc->get('PlacesService');
}

Here you can find how to do that http://blog.starreveld.com/2009/11/using-symfony-di-container-with.html. But I changed ContainerFactory, because of using Symfony2 component, instead of first version.