Global Debug Helpers for PHP

composer.json

{
    "name": "nicolas-grekas/debug-helpers",
    "description": "Global Debug Helpers for PHP",
    "require": {
        "symfony/var-dumper": "2.8.*@dev"
    },
    "authors": [
        {
            "name": "Nicolas Grekas",
            "email": "p@tchwork.com"
        }
    ],
    "autoload": {
        "files": ["debug-helpers.php"]
    }
}

debug-helpers.php

<?php

function d()
{
    call_user_func_array('dump', func_get_args() + [null]);
}

function dd()
{
    call_user_func_array('dump', func_get_args() + [null]);
    die();
}