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Thanks, that did the trick, you rock!

I've been looking everywhere for a solution of this but I can't find one... Basically what I did was created a class named USER. public class USER{ private static $USER = array(); public function __construct($U='') { // if $U is not entered (=='') then set $U to MY USER ID ($_COOKIE['user']) // do a mysql query by the ID (ala $U) and store the results to self::$USER } public function ID() { return self::$USER['id']; } } This is the code I am running... I do a user profile page that shows different properties of the USER from the database: USERNAME(),ID(),PHONE(),EMAIL(), etc. etc. // creates an instance of a different user (other than myself) $PROFILE = new USER($ID); // $ID: 26 will retrieve USERNAME: Test // create an instance of user class for myself using the cookie holding my id $ME = new USER($_COOKIE['user']) // $_COOKIE['user']: 01 will retrieve USERNAME: Monster echo($PROFILE->USERNAME()); // displays Monster echo($PROFILE->ID()); // displays 01 Any idea what I am doing wrong? I would assume that $PROFILE->USERNAME() would display Test and $ME->USERNAME() would show monster.