What are the potential risks or drawbacks of dynamically creating variable names in PHP?

Dynamically creating variable names in PHP can lead to confusion, code maintenance issues, and potential security vulnerabilities such as variable injection attacks. It is generally recommended to use arrays or objects to store dynamically generated data instead of creating variables with dynamic names. 

// Using an associative array to store dynamically generated data
$dynamicData = [];
$dynamicData['variable1'] = 'value1';
$dynamicData['variable2'] = 'value2';

// Accessing the dynamically generated data
echo $dynamicData['variable1']; // Outputs: value1
echo $dynamicData['variable2']; // Outputs: value2

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