I just wrote a post on this subject. Instead of creating a separate factory class for each controller, you can do it with closures. If the dependencies are invokable, or easily configured with an options array, it is even easier, all you need is an array listing the classes that can be injected. Check out http://zendblog.shinymayhem.com/2012/09/using-servicemanager-as-inversion-of.html

The problem here is that 'indexController' is defined as both an invokable and a factory. I think it checks invokables first, so when it finds what it is looking for, it never attempts to run the code in the factory. Just remove the entry in the 'invokables' array.

I just wrote a post on this subject. Instead of creating a separate factory class for each controller, you can do it with closures. If the dependencies are invokable, or easily configured with an options array, it is even easier, all you need is an array listing the classes that can be injected. Check out http://zendblog.shinymayhem.com/2013/09/using-servicemanager-as-inversion-of.html