parksobong

The following is my hit-counter script: [code]                 $cnt_file = "counter.dat";                 if($fp = @fopen($cnt_file, 'r')) {                         $count = fread($fp, filesize($cnt_file));                         fclose($fp);                 }                 else                         $count = 0;                 $count = $count + 1;                 $fp = fopen($cnt_file, 'w');                 fwrite($fp, $count);                 print("You are visitor number " . $count);                 fclose($fp) [/code] First, I didn't have a file called "counter.dat," and I assumed that this script would automatically create a "counter.dat" file if non-existent. However, "fopen()" errors continued to appear until I manually created "counter.dat" with a value of n. By nature, doesn't fopen($file, 'w') automatically create $file if it doesn't exist?