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Dynamic method calls in PHP allow calling methods by variable names at runtime, but introduce risks including reduced code readability, harder debugging, potential security vulnerabilities, and loss of IDE support for autocompletion and static analysis. Understanding these tradeoffs helps developers make informed decisions about when dynamic calls are appropriate.

The Downsides of Dynamic Method Calls in PHP

so, author lists up the reasons using dynamic method calls can make things more difficult, i think the most relevant one is readability here, to read and understand what the code actually does requires the reader to look at the content of the variable being passed for calling, so yeah , you read the code and still have no clue what it will do , that is obviously a problem , and the IDE problem simply stems for tat, neither does your ide know what values your variable is actually having, so yeah, author’s proposed solution is ``` match ($payload[‘event’]) {
<pre><code> 'success' =&gt; $this-&gt;handleSuccessWebhook($payload),

 'failure' =&gt; $this-&gt;handleFailureWebhook($payload),

 default =&gt; throw new Exception('No handler for the event: ' . $event)

 }; ``` 
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which is fine , but seldom used , and yes , until recently your would have a massive switch statement to content with

Bottom line, unless It’s something that you are really forced to do, just don’t.
Worked on a project which managed template fetch using that, and it was a “bad” experience to understand the flow.