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Hello everyone,

I wanted to have an email sent out to a user every time s/he updates their profile. So I looked around in the documentation and found this little gem: http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=33129895

So I went to /sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal directory and opened the "civicrm.module" file in which I found the " case: 'update' " portion and as the aforementioned documentation page instructs, I copied that snippet and deleted everything that was there (except for the break statement of course) and pasted the snippet I just copied. Then I upload the new edited file and get this error:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ':', expecting ']' in /home/%siteroot%/sites/all/modules/civicrm/drupal/civicrm.module on line 424

Line 424 is: $current_value = $array_cell[CRM:'value'];
Now in my defense I am not particularly fluent in PHP but I felt somewhat comfortable making what seemed to be a straightforward change.

What am I missing here? I feel like it should be much easier to apply this change since it was on the wiki with limited documentation but clearly I was wrong

Here is what my case: 'update' looks like with the snippet
case 'update':
    $account = $user;
    global $user;
    if($account->name==$user->name){ //test to see if the user or admin is updating the record
        $from = variable_get('site_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from'));
        $thefields = null;
        while($array_cell = each($_POST)) {
            $current_value = $array_cell[CRM:'value'];
            $current_key = $array_cell[CRM:'key'];
            if($current_key != 'op' && $current_key != '_qf_default' && $current_key != 'edit'){ //filter out some uneeded fields
                $thefields .= $current_key.": ".$current_value."\n\n";
            }
        }
        $from = variable_get('site_mail', ini_get('sendmail_from'));

        if(!empty($thefields)){
            user_mail($from, 'account modification', t("%u has changed his account information.\n\n%f\n\n%uri",
                         array('%u' => $_POST\[CRM:'first_name'\]." ".$_POST\[CRM:'last_name'\],
                         '%uri' =>url("user/$account->uid/edit", NULL, NULL, TRUE),'%f' => $thefields)),
                         "From: $from\nReply-to: $from\nX-Mailer: Drupal\nReturn-path: $from\nErrors-to: $from");
        }
    }
    return civicrm_form_data($edit, $account, $category, false);
    break;


Thank you, thank you!

But what if I want to send the email to the user who's profile it is? (as opposed to the same email address every time). Is that possible from the advanced menu you mentioned?