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Is there a way to send the updated/added values from profile, when a member/user updates his/hers data, to the admin of the site or another emailadress?

Can this be the first step?

/* do something when user edits profile */
add_action('personal_options_update', 'notify_admin_on_update');
function notify_admin_on_update(){
  // send a mail with the updated values to admin@mysite.com

What is best pracice to send emails from within WordPress?

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you got the first part right about using personal_options_update but to be on the safe side add edit_user_profile_update also. and as for sending emails within WordPress the best way would be to use wp_mail, So something like this:

add_action( 'personal_options_update', 'notify_admin_on_update' );
add_action( 'edit_user_profile_update','notify_admin_on_update');
function notify_admin_on_update(){
    global $current_user;

    if (!current_user_can( 'administrator' )){// avoid sending emails when admin is updating user profiles
        $to = 'admin@email.com';
        $subject = 'user updated profile';
        $message = "the user : " .$current_user->display_name . " has updated his profile with:\n";
        wp_mail( $to, $subject, $message);
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Your if statement will assign 1 as the current user id, thus making anybody who updates a profile temporarily an administrator. Instead of using user id numbers, it makes more senese to check for permsissions: if( !current_user_can( 'administrator' ) ) –  John P Bloch Mar 16 '11 at 14:19
thanks for the correction i updated the code –  Bainternet Mar 16 '11 at 15:08
Thanks, Bainternet and John P Bloch! I used: if ($current_user->ID != 1){ –  Fredag Mar 16 '11 at 15:43
I have a second question to this issue: –  Fredag Jun 16 '11 at 9:02
I have a second question to this issue: The above suggestions works well but I want to only show/email the data that was updated, not all of the users data. And is it possible to email the data when a specific field has been updated. –  Fredag Jun 16 '11 at 9:09
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