New Instance of Class Rewriting Other Instance?

[Resuwen]

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.

 

[requinix]

What you're doing wrong is making things static. Static values are the same for every single instance of the class.

 

So don't do that.

[Resuwen]

Thanks, that did the trick, you rock!