C#: Reading output from PHP

Steps (MS Visual C#):

1. Create a new Console Application


2. Declare four variables req, response, output and reader as WebRequest, WebResponse, Stream and StreamReader


3. Create an web request using WebRequset.Create(string url)
   (e.g. req = WebRequest.Create(http://localhost/index.php);)


4. Set WebRequest method as POST
   (req.Method = "POST");


5. Set :
   response = req.GetResponse();
   output = response.GetResponseStream();
   reader = new StreamReader(output);


6. Now reader has the output from the PHP file


7. To read from the reader, reader.ReadLine() method can be used

Example:

(C# : phpEchoReader.cs)

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Net;
using System.IO;

namespace phpEchoReader {
class Program {
static void Main(string[] args) {
WebRequest req;
WebResponse response;
Stream output;
StreamReader reader;
req =
WebRequest.Create("http://localhost/index.php");
req.Method = "POST";
response = req.GetResponse();
output = response.GetResponseStream();
reader = new StreamReader(output);
while (!reader.EndOfStream)
{
Console.WriteLine(reader.ReadLine());
}
Console.WriteLine("Press any key too continue...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}

(php code: index.php)

for ($i = 0; $i <>

echo $i."\n";

?>

Output: