Zend FrameWork 2 Get ServiceLocator In Form and populate a drop down list

Question

I need to get the adapter from the form, but still could not.

In my controller I can recover the adapter using the following:

Answer 1

The other various answers here generally correct, for ZF < 2.1.

Once 2.1 is out, the framework has a pretty nice solution. This more or less formalizes DrBeza's solution, ie: using an initializer, and then moving any form-bootstrapping into an init() method that is called after all dependencies have been initialized.

I've been playing with the development branch, it it works quite well.