how do I make bold tags work

astoller

Line 11 contains $title which I want to show up as bold, hence mny bold tags
However final output file, which calls up $filename,
does not display in bold
and the font size \4\ in line 7 also does not show up as size 4.

How can I fix this ?

[?php]
$filename="blog.html";

$date=date("d-m-Y");
$time=date("HⓂs");

$f=fopen($filename, "w+");
fwrite($f, "<table width=\"600\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"5\" cellpadding=\"2\"><tr>\r\n");
fwrite($f, "<td width=\"450\">$title</td>\r\n");
fwrite($f, "<td width=\"150\">$date at $time</td>\r\n");
fwrite($f, "</tr><tr>\r\n");
fwrite($f, "<td colspan=\"2\">$newsitem</td>\r\n");
fwrite($f, "</tr></table>\r\n");
fwrite($f, " \r\n");
fclose($f);
?]

rgermain

I am not sure why it isn't working for you. I copied and pasted the code and everything came out looking ok for me.

Weedpacket

Why aren't you using styles, anyway? tags are, like, so 1990s...

$f=fopen($filename, "w+");
fwrite($f, '<table width="600" border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="2"
style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><tr>
<td width="450"><b>'.$title.'</b></td>
<td width="150">'.$date.' at '.$time.'</td>
</tr><tr>
<td colspan="2">'.$newsitem.'</td>
</tr></table>
<br>
');
fclose($f);

rgermain

Weedpacket, does have a point. The font tags are deprecated and styles to give much more and better control over things.

astoller

Weedpacket
The slashbacks "\" are escape characters.
This peice of scripts embedded in an html script
and without them the formatting would not work.

My query is
why are the bold tags not making the text bold?

ofSHIZ

Also.. the tags for php are
[ php ]

[ /php ]
😛 without spaces
Try.. 
or 
?
EDIT - I assume im the only person who uses the tags
😛

richblend

when viewing the page in your browser, click view source, and check that it is actualyl outputting the bold tags...

astoller

I tried putting in spaces thus
 
Still no bold result.

In view source, there are no tags being generated.