diff --git a/php/Dockerfile b/php/Dockerfile
index 56487971..53157cf5 100644
--- a/php/Dockerfile
+++ b/php/Dockerfile
@@ -5,13 +5,23 @@ MAINTAINER Mahmoud Zalt <mahmoud@zalt.me>
 ADD ./laravel.ini /usr/local/etc/php/conf.d
 ADD ./laravel.pool.conf /usr/local/etc/php-fpm.d/
 
-RUN apt-get update && apt-get install libpq-dev -y
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install libpq-dev -y \
+    curl \
+    libmemcached-dev
 
 # Install extensions using the helper script provided by the base image
 RUN docker-php-ext-install \
     pdo_mysql \
     pdo_pgsql
 
+#Installing memcached for php 7 is a bit trickier
+RUN curl -L -o /tmp/memcached.tar.gz "https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached/archive/php7.tar.gz" \
+    && mkdir -p /usr/src/php/ext/memcached \
+    && tar -C /usr/src/php/ext/memcached -zxvf /tmp/memcached.tar.gz --strip 1 \
+    && docker-php-ext-configure memcached \
+    && docker-php-ext-install memcached \
+    && rm /tmp/memcached.tar.gz
+
 RUN usermod -u 1000 www-data
 
 WORKDIR /var/www/laravel