Decoupling PHP Logic with Laminas ServiceManager Factories
Learn how to use the Laminas ServiceManager and Factories to remove hard-coded dependencies from your PHP application, improving testability and decoupling.
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laminasZend ServiceManager shared flag: scope limits with aliases and plugin managers
The Zend ServiceManager, carried forward in Laminas, caches shared services by default, so repeated lookups under the same service name return a single instance, while a service configured with shared => false is constructed on every retrieval. Aliases let multiple keys resolve to one canonical service name, and plugin managers maintain their own scoped c
"Unable to resolve service" in production only after enabling laminas config cache
Our Laminas MVC application runs cleanly on developer machines, but in production the ServiceManager throws an exception of the form Unable to resolve service \"X\" to a factory for a service whose factory is defined in a module that has been registered in modules.config.php for weeks. The relevant difference between environments is module_listener_options i
Laminas ServiceManager factory signature enforcement after Zend Framework 3 upgrade
Goal Determine whether existing Zend Framework 3 callable factories can remain unchanged during recovery from a failed Laminas upgrade, or whether they must be converted to Laminas ServiceManager FactoryInterface before service resolution can be validated. Constraints and uncertainty Zend Framework 3 tolerated callable factories with optional parameters, whi
ServiceManager Shared Instances vs Non-Shared Factories for State Isolation
In Zend (Laminas) applications, the ServiceManager defaults to caching service instances to minimize instantiation overhead during the request lifecycle. While this reduces latency and memory allocation, it introduces risks when services maintain internal state that must remain isolated between different components within a single execution thread. Configuri