L'exemple ci-dessous implémente un gestionnaire de protocole 
   var:// qui permet d'écrire et lire une variable
   globale en utilisant les fonctions standard de fichier, telle que
   fread(). Le protocole var://
   implémenté ci-dessous, va, à partir d'une URL 
   "var://foo" accéder à la variable globale 
   $GLOBALS["foo"].
  
Exemple #1 Un flux pour lire et écrire des variables globales
<?php
class VariableStream {
    var $position;
    var $varname;
    function stream_open($path, $mode, $options, &$opened_path)
    {
        $url = parse_url($path);
        $this->varname = $url["host"];
        $this->position = 0;
        return true;
    }
    function stream_read($count)
    {
        $ret = substr($GLOBALS[$this->varname], $this->position, $count);
        $this->position += strlen($ret);
        return $ret;
    }
    function stream_write($data)
    {
        $left = substr($GLOBALS[$this->varname], 0, $this->position);
        $right = substr($GLOBALS[$this->varname], $this->position + strlen($data));
        $GLOBALS[$this->varname] = $left . $data . $right;
        $this->position += strlen($data);
        return strlen($data);
    }
    function stream_tell()
    {
        return $this->position;
    }
    function stream_eof()
    {
        return $this->position >= strlen($GLOBALS[$this->varname]);
    }
    function stream_seek($offset, $whence)
    {
        switch ($whence) {
            case SEEK_SET:
                if ($offset < strlen($GLOBALS[$this->varname]) && $offset >= 0) {
                     $this->position = $offset;
                     return true;
                } else {
                     return false;
                }
                break;
            case SEEK_CUR:
                if ($offset >= 0) {
                     $this->position += $offset;
                     return true;
                } else {
                     return false;
                }
                break;
            case SEEK_END:
                if (strlen($GLOBALS[$this->varname]) + $offset >= 0) {
                     $this->position = strlen($GLOBALS[$this->varname]) + $offset;
                     return true;
                } else {
                     return false;
                }
                break;
            default:
                return false;
        }
    }
    function stream_metadata($path, $option, $var) 
    {
  if($option == STREAM_META_TOUCH) {
   $url = parse_url($path);
         $varname = $url["host"];
   if(!isset($GLOBALS[$varname])) {
          $GLOBALS[$varname] = '';
   }
   return true;
  }
  return false;
    }
}
stream_wrapper_register("var", "VariableStream")
    or die("Failed to register protocol");
$myvar = "";
$fp = fopen("var://myvar", "r+");
fwrite($fp, "line1\n");
fwrite($fp, "line2\n");
fwrite($fp, "line3\n");
rewind($fp);
while (!feof($fp)) {
    echo fgets($fp);
}
fclose($fp);
var_dump($myvar);
?>
L'exemple ci-dessus va afficher :
line1 line2 line3 string(18) "line1 line2 line3 "