creating a new file

[Anon]

I need to create a new file named based on info pulled from a databae, I was under the impression that fopen(file,"w");
would create a new file if it didn't alreaxist, but this doesn't seem to work, is there a way to do this . Thanks

[herve]

fopen($file,"w")

where $file (and not 'file') is a variable
containing the file name ;
it is supposed to work as you say,
so may be the problem is somewhere else;

Rights/ownership on filesystem for instance;

but we need to know what do you mean when
you say "this doesn't seem to work" ?
Have you got an error message ?