I am using Laravel 5.0 and I am trying to create a view if is does not exits like so

if (view()->exists($moduleName.$getCategoryNameToLowerCase))
    {
        //if exist return the view
         return view($moduleName.$getCategoryNameToLowerCase);
    }
    else{
         //else create a view and return it;
         fopen( app_path('../resources/','views/'.$moduleName .'.'. $getCategoryNameToLowerCase . '.blade.php' ), 'w');
         return view($moduleName.$getCategoryNameToLowerCase);
    }

But I dont know why I am still not able to go one folder backwards to reach the resource folder it still says this

fopen(C:\xampp\htdocs\foobar\app/../resources/): failed to open stream: No such file or directory