diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/php/builder.sh b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/php/builder.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..85c448480571
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/php/builder.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+source $stdenv/setup
+
+mkdir -p $out/share/emacs/site-lisp
+cd $out/share/emacs/site-lisp
+tar xvfz $src
+mv php-mode-*/* .
+rmdir php-mode-*
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/php/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/php/default.nix
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..ec160dccd9fb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/applications/editors/emacs-modes/php/default.nix
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+{stdenv, fetchurl}:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "php-mode-1.5.0";
+
+  src = fetchurl {
+    url = "http://downloads.sourceforge.net/php-mode/${name}.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1bffgg4rpiggxqc1hvjcby24sfyzj5728zg7r6f4v6a126a7kcfq";
+  };
+
+  builder = ./builder.sh;
+}
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 51c2c99aeba1..330cb08659f6 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -5652,6 +5652,8 @@ let
     # we want it to have higher precedence.
     org = hiPrio (callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/org { });
 
+    phpMode = callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/php { };
+
     prologMode = callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/prolog { };
 
     proofgeneral = callPackage ../applications/editors/emacs-modes/proofgeneral { };