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Static method called as dynamic

Reports dynamic calls to static class methods.

Locating this inspection

By ID

Can be used to locate inspection in e.g. Qodana configuration files, where you can quickly enable or disable it, or adjust its settings.

PhpStaticAsDynamicMethodCallInspection
Via Settings dialog

Path to the inspection settings via IntelliJ Platform IDE Settings dialog, when you need to adjust inspection settings directly from your IDE.

Settings or Preferences | Editor | Inspections | PHP | General

If the target has the magic method __call, a separate inspection severity and highlighting level can be set.

Inspection options

Here you can find the description of settings available for the Static method called as dynamic inspection, and the reference of their default values.

When __magic is present show

Default value:

Selected

Suppressing Inspection

You can suppress this inspection by placing the following comment marker before the code fragment where you no longer want messages from this inspection to appear:

//noinspection PhpStaticAsDynamicMethodCallInspection

More detailed instructions as well as other ways and options that you have can be found in the product documentation:

Last modified: 18 September 2025