I develop in my local environment on OSX using a mounted network drive that is my Linux VM.

Some of you might know that OSX handles files and metadata from mounted drives in an interesting way. It creates an ".AppleDouble" directory, and then creates files in that directory that match the names of the parent directory (ie, Controller/BlogController.php and it creates Controller/.AppleDouble/BlogController.php that contains the metadata).

These files store encoded data about the original files. Because of that, they do not contain a php start tag (<?php)

I updated to Symfony 3.2.0 this morning and started receiving this exception:

The file "/path/Controller/.AppleDouble/BlogController.php" does not contain PHP code. Did you forgot to add the "<?php" start tag at the beginning of the file?

Everything works in 3.1.* and upon further examination, the change causing this was in PR #18869

That change occurred to assist in people who had copied and pasted code from a tutorial that did not have a start tag. Instead of it silently failing, it now throws an exception in the findClass() method of the AnnotationFileLoader to give a clearer reason why it failed.

The situation is that now it is attempting to load the ".php" files in my .AppleDouble directories, assuming they are actual PHP files, and it is not able to find a start tag, so an exception is thrown. In the past, it would simply not load those files, and my application would work.

I would rather not have to create a custom loader to get around this. Any thoughts or suggestions on what I can do? Thanks!