diff --git a/base-php/Dockerfile b/base-php/Dockerfile
index a4edddb..7cbd79b 100644
--- a/base-php/Dockerfile
+++ b/base-php/Dockerfile
@@ -6,12 +6,15 @@ FROM php:${PHP_VERSION}-fpm-${DEBIAN_VERSION}
 
 # renovate: datasource=github-releases depName=aptible/supercronic versioning=semver
 ARG SUPERCRONIC_VERSION="v0.2.33"
+# renovate: datasource=github-releases depName=mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer versioning=semver
+ARG INSTALL_PHP_EXTENSIONS_VERSION="2.6.0"
 
-# sha1sums for supercronic
+# sha1sums
 ARG SUPERCRONIC_AMD64_SHA1SUM=71b0d58cc53f6bd72cf2f293e09e294b79c666d8
 ARG SUPERCRONIC_386_SHA1SUM=37c4c0b42c4b00be123d2f9736754bcf0659ae4e
 ARG SUPERCRONIC_ARM_SHA1SUM=0d3e3da1eeceaa34991d44b48aecfcbb9d9fba5a
 ARG SUPERCRONIC_ARM64_SHA1SUM=e0f0c06ebc5627e43b25475711e694450489ab00
+ARG INSTALL_PHP_EXTENSIONS_SHA1SUM=32d4b2cd2a5008d57d038670356121bc476f814b
 
 # build variables
 ARG TARGETARCH
@@ -31,6 +34,10 @@ RUN set -eux; \
     [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm" ] && SUPERCRONIC_SHA1SUM="$SUPERCRONIC_ARM_SHA1SUM"; \
     [ "$TARGETARCH" = "arm64" ] && SUPERCRONIC_SHA1SUM="$SUPERCRONIC_ARM64_SHA1SUM"; \
     CHECKSUM_STAGE=$(echo -n $(echo "${SUPERCRONIC_SHA1SUM}  /usr/local/bin/supercronic" | sha1sum -c -) | tail -c 2); \
+    if [ "${CHECKSUM_STAGE}" != "OK" ]; then echo "Warning! Checksum does not match!" && exit 1; fi; \
+    curl -fLo "/usr/local/bin/install-php-extensions" "https://github.com/mlocati/docker-php-extension-installer/releases/download/${INSTALL_PHP_EXTENSIONS_VERSION}/install-php-extensions"; \
+    chmod +x "/usr/local/bin/install-php-extensions"; \
+    CHECKSUM_STAGE=$(echo -n $(echo "${INSTALL_PHP_EXTENSIONS_SHA1SUM}  /usr/local/bin/install-php-extensions" | sha1sum -c -) | tail -c 2); \
     if [ "${CHECKSUM_STAGE}" != "OK" ]; then echo "Warning! Checksum does not match!" && exit 1; fi
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/erhardtconsulting/images"