Accessing variable content displayed from debugger in PHPStorm

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Tmw100
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I am a defector from another IDE and really liking PHPStorm. However, I have not located a comprehensive source of documentation for symbology... 

 

In the screen shot below, I've cut the results of debugger.   

At the green arrow, there is a reference to $view. Because I "know" that $view is an object, I deduce that hamburger symbol implies objects. 

Going down further, there is value that I want to access within my php code... 

How, given the tree shown would I do that? 

It seems that it is buried within $view/storage/result[0]......field_tool_class

 

 

 

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Dmitry Tronin
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Icons are described in our Web Help: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/phpstorm/debug-tool-window-variables.html#icons

Going down further, there is value that I want to access within my php code... How, given the tree shown would I do that?

Do you want to navigate to source file:line from the debugger window or you just want to find a variable in a tree? You can use "search-as-you-type" there.
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Tmw100
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Neither. As I mentioned in the question,  I found the values in the debugger-  

However, apparently one can not always just follow the path and assign the value to variable in code. 

Is there a way to discover what methods(functions) one might use to access a value buried in a method or object?

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Eugene Morozov
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However, apparently one can not always just follow the path and assign the value to variable in code.

You can either right-click the value and choose to Set Value, or if you need to do that in the code specifically, use Copy Path from the right-click menu.

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