which approach is best to get instance of a Table in cakephp 3.0

Question

I am new to Cakephp and started with cake3.

A question arises on me is that which approach is the best from the performance sense to get an instance of a table in CakePHP-3.0 which is not a controller's default one between loadModel or TableRegistry.

Such as:

1. $this->loadModel('Articles');
OR
2. TableRegistry::get('Articles');

I read Cake-Doc for loadModel and TableRegistry. Confusion comes from here

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

When in a controller, it is better to use loadModel(). The reason is that it is easier to mock when doing unit testing.

It also sets the $this->[MyTable] variable according to the table that has be loaded.