Drupal PHP views - how to reference nested braket array variables? I did a dpm() on the path variable i have and I'm running into the issue of figuring out how to reference this variable. When I do a print_r() on the variable it shows that its [[path]]

I'm not sure how to reference that. I thought it might be $var[['path']] but that doesnt work.
You're almost there, since the square brackets are part of the string they need to go inside the quotes, e.g.

$var['[path]']