What are the potential challenges of monitoring the progress of a program running in PHP compared to running it in a shell?

One potential challenge of monitoring the progress of a program running in PHP compared to running it in a shell is the lack of real-time feedback or progress updates. To address this issue, you can implement a custom logging mechanism in your PHP program to track progress and provide updates as the program executes. 

// Custom logging mechanism to track progress
function logProgress($message) {
    $logFile = 'progress.log';
    file_put_contents($logFile, $message . PHP_EOL, FILE_APPEND);
}

// Example usage
logProgress('Task 1 completed successfully.');
logProgress('Task 2 in progress...');

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