fopen failing to create files

[Megahertza]

I have just finished uploading my site from my PHP 5 WinXP to a Free host with PHP 4.3 on Linux.

I have a page that uses fopen to create txt files for every new user. On the free host. No txt files are created and no errors are reported.

$file = "/User/" . $name . ".txt";
$handle = fopen($file, 'a+');
fwrite($handle, $name."|".$pass."|".$emai."|".$loca."|".$inte."|".$date);
fclose($handle);

I am able to get data from a file, append data and so on but not create a new file

[weekender]

can you chmod the folder to give right access?

although i dont think thats the problem - if it were, you'd get error messages

[Megahertza]

Could it be that the free host does not allow this and have changed the php.ini