Loading Model Inside Another Model and Controller in CakePHP 3

Sometimes it necessary to load a model inside another model as well as another controller in CakePHP. This article will help you to load a model from another model & controller with CakePHP 3

Load From Model:

$anotherTable = TableRegistry::get('AnotherTable');
$data = $anotherTable->find('list');

CakePHP TableRegistry is a factory of the Table object. It comes with a lot of static function and get() one of them. TableRegistry::get() provides an instance of Table. You can see an example from above snippet.

Load From Controller:

$this->loadModel('AnotherModel');
$data = $this->AnotherModel->find('list');

If you need to load a model from the controller which does not default model of the controller. You can use loadModel() function to get an instance of another model.