[SOLVED] question about lastupdatedate field

Does this field not get updated when an admin saves the profile in the backend? It seems that it it only updated when the user saves profile in frontend.

It's only updated when the user themselves updates their own profile.

I have a geocode php file that runs when someone saves profile. Since I don't want to geocode all users, just the ones who recently changed profile, how could I add a field to use so that the query knows who just changed profile? I was using this:
but this won't work if an admin updates address in backend

I think I've found a way: using auto actions I can set up a new field "cb_changed" that increments every time someone saves profile from frontend or backend. Then on my custom php script that geocodes it'll look for cb_changed>0. Then after geocoding the script will update the table and set cb_changed==0 again.

You should be able to just add a condition to check that the user being saved is the user viewing. This is done with the below.

[user_id] Equal To [cb:userdata field="user_id" user="#me" /]

You'll want to use the onAfterUserUpdate trigger (is frontend only as well).

well I want the php file to run for anyone that saves the profile. The php file needs to be able to filter the person that just saved their profile so it doesn't geocoede everyone. For that I need a field to use. I can't use lastupdatedate since it only changes from frontend.