diff --git a/srcpkgs/php-mssql b/srcpkgs/php-mssql
new file mode 120000
index 0000000000..fa557ad95d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/php-mssql
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+php
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/php/template b/srcpkgs/php/template
index adcd4ac954..bbd7861972 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/php/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/php/template
@@ -1,15 +1,14 @@
 # Template build file for 'php'
 pkgname=php
 version=5.6.13
-revision=1
+revision=2
 short_desc="An HTML-embedded scripting language"
 license="PHP"
 homepage="http://www.php.net"
-# XXX freetds and mssql modules.
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config bison"
 makedepends="postgresql-libs-devel libldap-devel libvpx-devel sqlite-devel
- unixodbc-devel net-snmp-devel libzip-devel enchant-devel libmcrypt-devel
- libltdl-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel icu55-devel
+ unixodbc-devel freetds-devel net-snmp-devel libzip-devel enchant-devel
+ libmcrypt-devel libltdl-devel libpng-devel libjpeg-turbo-devel icu55-devel
  libcurl-devel libxslt-devel libressl-devel bzip2-devel zlib-devel db-devel
  gmp-devel gdbm-devel freetype-devel apache-devel tidy-devel
  readline-devel libmysqlclient-devel"
@@ -70,6 +69,7 @@ do_build() {
 		--with-ldap-sasl \
 		--with-mcrypt=shared \
 		--with-mhash \
+		--with-mssql=shared,/usr \
 		--with-mysql-sock=/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock \
 		--with-mysql=shared,mysqlnd \
 		--with-mysqli=shared,mysqlnd \
@@ -279,6 +279,15 @@ php-mcrypt_package() {
 	}
 }
 
+php-mssql_package() {
+	lib32disabled=yes
+	depends="php-${version}_${revision}"
+	short_desc+=' - FreeTDS (MSSQL) module'
+	pkg_install() {
+		vmove "usr/lib/php/modules/*mssql*.so"
+	}
+}
+
 php-mysql_package() {
 	lib32disabled=yes
 	depends="php-${version}_${revision}"