c＃console应用程序与PHP页面交互

Question

I have a c# console application that I invoke with a server call in PHP

chdir($filePath);
exec($filePath.$fileName);

This works great, the application is run. The data it is designed to collect is collected and everyone is happy. Currently I have plans on storing the one time use information on a server or a flat file, but then I noticed that while the console application is running and doing it's magic the page hangs waiting for the application to stop. This intrigued me, and now i'm wondering if there is a way for the application to pass it's data back to the page directly?

Note: I'm running Apache2 on Windows 7

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Update:

Ended up using

$runCommand = "D:\\ScanBoyConsole\\ScanBoy_Console.exe COM1 9600 8 1 0 1"; 
$WshShell = new COM("WScript.Shell");
$output = $WshShell->Exec($runCommand)->StdOut->ReadAll;
json_decode($output);

Answer 1

If you mean by "directly" that you want the application's output sent to the client while it's still running you might be interested in passthru().
If you're also the author of the C# application you could skip the console application and expose the functionality in a way accessible via php's COM and .Net module.