diff --git a/php-fpm/Dockerfile-70 b/php-fpm/Dockerfile-70
index d99bf69f..08427d36 100644
--- a/php-fpm/Dockerfile-70
+++ b/php-fpm/Dockerfile-70
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ MAINTAINER Mahmoud Zalt <mahmoud@zalt.me>
 #   - INSTALL_XDEBUG=           false
 #   - INSTALL_MONGO=            false
 #   - INSTALL_ZIP_ARCHIVE=      false
+#   - INSTALL_MEMCACHED=        false
 #
 
 #####################################
@@ -74,6 +75,29 @@ RUN if [ ${INSTALL_ZIP_ARCHIVE} = true ]; then \
     docker-php-ext-enable zip \
 ;fi
 
+#####################################
+# PHP Memcached:
+#####################################
+
+ARG INSTALL_MEMCACHED=true
+ENV INSTALL_MEMCACHED ${INSTALL_MEMCACHED}
+RUN if [ ${INSTALL_MEMCACHED} = true ]; then \
+    # Install the php memcached extension
+    curl -L -o /tmp/memcached.tar.gz "https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached/archive/php7.tar.gz" \
+    && mkdir -p memcached \
+    && tar -C memcached -zxvf /tmp/memcached.tar.gz --strip 1 \
+    && ( \
+        cd memcached \
+        && phpize \
+        && ./configure \
+        && make -j$(nproc) \
+        && make install \
+    ) \
+    && rm -r memcached \
+    && rm /tmp/memcached.tar.gz \
+    && docker-php-ext-enable memcached \
+;fi
+
 
 #
 #--------------------------------------------------------------------------