diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/7.0.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/7.0.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1369cf4a219a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/7.0.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{ callPackage, apacheHttpd  }:
+callPackage ./generic.nix {
+  phpVersion = "7.0.0beta1";
+  url = "https://downloads.php.net/~ab/php-7.0.0beta1.tar.bz2";
+  sha = "1pj3ysfhswg2r370ivp33fv9zbcl3yvhmxgnc731k08hv6hmd984";
+  apacheHttpd = apacheHttpd;
+  php7 = true;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/fix-paths-php7.patch b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/fix-paths-php7.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2b9e4ad0ebbf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/fix-paths-php7.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+--- php-7.0.0beta1/configure	    2015-07-10 12:11:41.810045613 +0000
++++ php-7.0.0beta1-new/configure	2015-07-17 16:10:21.775528267 +0000
+@@ -6172,7 +6172,7 @@
+     as_fn_error $? "Please note that Apache version >= 2.0.44 is required" "$LINENO" 5
+   fi
+ 
+-  APXS_LIBEXECDIR='$(INSTALL_ROOT)'`$APXS -q LIBEXECDIR`
++  APXS_LIBEXECDIR="$prefix/modules"
+   if test -z `$APXS -q SYSCONFDIR`; then
+     INSTALL_IT="\$(mkinstalldirs) '$APXS_LIBEXECDIR' && \
+                  $APXS -S LIBEXECDIR='$APXS_LIBEXECDIR' \
+@@ -37303,9 +37303,7 @@
+ 
+ 
+ if test "$PHP_GETTEXT" != "no"; then
+-  for i in $PHP_GETTEXT /usr/local /usr; do
+-    test -r $i/include/libintl.h && GETTEXT_DIR=$i && break
+-  done
++  GETTEXT_DIR=$PHP_GETTEXT
+ 
+   if test -z "$GETTEXT_DIR"; then
+     as_fn_error $? "Cannot locate header file libintl.h" "$LINENO" 5
+
diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/generic.nix
index 33b5b0f9024b..065ce21bf10f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/php/generic.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 , libxslt, libmcrypt, bzip2, icu, openldap, cyrus_sasl, libmhash, freetds
 , uwimap, pam, gmp
 
-, phpVersion, apacheHttpd, sha }:
+, phpVersion, apacheHttpd, sha
+, php7 ? false, url ? null }:
 
 let
   libmcryptOverride = libmcrypt.override { disablePosixThreads = true; };
@@ -212,7 +213,7 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} ( fixed : let inherit (fixed.fixed)
     imapSupport = config.php.imap or true;
     ldapSupport = config.php.ldap or true;
     mhashSupport = config.php.mhash or true;
-    mysqlSupport = config.php.mysql or true;
+    mysqlSupport = (!php7) && (config.php.mysql or true);
     mysqliSupport = config.php.mysqli or true;
     pdo_mysqlSupport = config.php.pdo_mysql or true;
     libxml2Support = config.php.libxml2 or true;
@@ -220,7 +221,7 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} ( fixed : let inherit (fixed.fixed)
     bcmathSupport = config.php.bcmath or true;
     socketsSupport = config.php.sockets or true;
     curlSupport = config.php.curl or true;
-    curlWrappersSupport = config.php.curlWrappers or true;
+    curlWrappersSupport = (!php7) && (config.php.curlWrappers or true);
     gettextSupport = config.php.gettext or true;
     pcntlSupport = config.php.pcntl or true;
     postgresqlSupport = config.php.postgresql or true;
@@ -241,7 +242,7 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} ( fixed : let inherit (fixed.fixed)
     ftpSupport = config.php.ftp or true;
     fpmSupport = config.php.fpm or true;
     gmpSupport = config.php.gmp or true;
-    mssqlSupport = config.php.mssql or (!stdenv.isDarwin);
+    mssqlSupport = (!php7) && (config.php.mssql or (!stdenv.isDarwin));
     ztsSupport = config.php.zts or false;
     calendarSupport = config.php.calendar or true;
   };
@@ -267,7 +268,10 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} ( fixed : let inherit (fixed.fixed)
   '';
 
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = "http://www.php.net/distributions/php-${version}.tar.bz2";
+    url = if url == null then
+      "http://www.php.net/distributions/php-${version}.tar.bz2"
+    else
+      url;
     sha256 = sha;
   };
 
@@ -278,6 +282,10 @@ composableDerivation.composableDerivation {} ( fixed : let inherit (fixed.fixed)
     maintainers = with maintainers; [ globin ];
   };
 
-  patches = [ ./fix-paths.patch ];
+  patches = if !php7 then
+    [ ./fix-paths.patch ]
+  else
+    [ ./fix-paths-php7.patch ]
+  ;
 
 })
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 18aeb39ac4b4..9fd664bd3396 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5003,6 +5003,8 @@ let
 
   php56 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/php/5.6.nix { };
 
+  php70 = callPackage ../development/interpreters/php/7.0.nix { };
+
   picoc = callPackage ../development/interpreters/picoc {};
 
   picolisp = callPackage ../development/interpreters/picolisp {};