Since it wouldn't add any value to repeat that it means echo, I thought you'd like to see what means in PHP exactly:
Array ( [0] => Array ( [0] => 368 // T_OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO [1] => <?= [2] => 1 ) [1] => Array ( [0] => 309 // T_VARIABLE [1] => $a [2] => 1 ) [2] => ; // UNKNOWN <--(because odd,it isn'tis itoptional (ignored)) [3] => Array ( [0] => 369 // T_CLOSE_TAG [1] => ?> [2] => 1 ) ) You can use this code to test it yourself:
$tokens = token_get_all('<?=$a;?>'); print_r($tokens); foreach($tokens as $token){ echo token_name((int) $token[0]), PHP_EOL; } From the List of Parser Tokens, here is what T_OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO links to.