diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
index da871e5..94ad81c 100644
--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ RUN set -xe && \
     apk update && apk upgrade && \
     apk add --no-cache --virtual=run-deps \
     nginx git ca-certificates curl \
-    php5 php5-fpm php5-curl php5-dom php5-gd php5-json php5-mcrypt php5-pcntl \
-    php5-pdo php5-pdo_pgsql php5-pgsql php5-pdo_mysql php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-posix
+    php7 php7-fpm php7-curl php7-dom php7-gd php7-iconv php7-json php7-mcrypt \
+    php7-pgsql php7-pcntl php7-pdo php7-pdo_pgsql \
+    php7-mysqli php7-pdo_mysql \
+    php7-mbstring php7-posix php7-session
 
 # Add user www-data for php-fpm.
 # 82 is the standard uid/gid for "www-data" in Alpine.
diff --git a/root/etc/cont-init.d/50-php b/root/etc/cont-init.d/50-php
index bbbf57d..fa83167 100644
--- a/root/etc/cont-init.d/50-php
+++ b/root/etc/cont-init.d/50-php
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@
 
 # Make sure to have a defined set of PHP binaries,
 # regardless of how the package maintainer(s) named those.
-if [ ! -f /usr/bin/php ]; then
-    ln -s /usr/bin/php5 /usr/bin/php
-fi
 
-if [ ! -f /usr/bin/php-fpm ]; then
-    ln -s /usr/bin/php-fpm5 /usr/bin/php-fpm
-fi
+rm /usr/bin/php
+ln -s /usr/bin/php7 /usr/bin/php
+
+rm /usr/sbin/php-fpm
+ln -s /usr/sbin/php-fpm7 /usr/sbin/php-fpm
diff --git a/root/etc/php5/php-fpm.conf b/root/etc/php7/php-fpm.conf
similarity index 100%
rename from root/etc/php5/php-fpm.conf
rename to root/etc/php7/php-fpm.conf