variables in fopen()

[robinator]

I'm trying to design a few things for my website, and I want it to open a file based on user input without doing a bunch of if/thens and such. But it doesn't seem to like me putting variables in there. i.e. fopen("$variable.txt","w")...and so on. Is there any way around this so I can still open my desired files, but not have to do messy if/thens or something?

[br__ken]

what are you tryin to do?

you can always throw the file in an array using:
$array=file($thefile);

that skips through the fopen bs.. but you might still need to use an if/then statement