fopen problem

Hi all. I know this is probably a dumb question, but hey, I'm new! I am writing a script that I need to write a text file to save a "chapter" submitted from a form... Basically it is one of those contributive story things. Anyhow I am getting a parse error on line 62 which is where my fputs() lives. What am I missing here? //create the new record $sql = "INSERT INTO story1 (username,email,title,parent) VALUES ('$username','$email','$title','$parent')"; $thisrec = mysql_query($sql); //set the file name for the chapter text $file = 'text.txt';// . $thisrec['sid'] . '.txt'; //update the record with the file name $id = $thisrec['sid']; $record = mysql_query("UPDATE story1 SET file='$file' WHERE sid='$id'"); //Create the chapter's text file and open it for writing $filehandle = fopen($file,"w"); // Write the file fputs( $filehandle, $chaptext, strlen( $chaptext ) ); // and close it fclose($filehandle);