diff --git a/cacti-fix-php7-db-access.patch b/cacti-fix-php7-db-access.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..009c981
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cacti-fix-php7-db-access.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+From f76503b790d059c59070c69e07a1ebe882aff30f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Patrick <patrick@patrickrademaker.nl>
+Date: Sat, 13 May 2017 00:01:13 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] Bugfix for issue#687
+
+--- a/lib/data_query.php
++++ b/lib/data_query.php
+@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@ function data_query_rewrite_indexes(&$errmsg, $host_id, $snmp_query_id, $rewrite
+ 	foreach($oid_items as $item){
+ 		$matches = array();
+ 		if(preg_match('/^\|query_([^|]+)\|$/', $item, $matches)){
+-			$iv = mysql_real_escape_string($matches[1]);
++			$iv = db_qstr($matches[1]);
+ 			if(is_array($fields_processed) && !in_array($iv, $fields_processed)){
+ 				$errmsg[] = "rewrite_index='$rewrite_index': '$iv' is not processed yet, could not use it as index source";
+ 					continue;
diff --git a/cacti.spec b/cacti.spec
index 9ec9c2a..90a6a92 100644
--- a/cacti.spec
+++ b/cacti.spec
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Name: cacti
 Version: 1.1.6
-Release: 1%{?dist}
+Release: 2%{?dist}
 Summary: An rrd based graphing tool
 License: GPLv2+
 URL: http://www.cacti.net/
@@ -9,13 +9,46 @@ Source1: cacti-httpd.conf
 Source2: cacti.logrotate
 Source3: cacti.README.fedora
 Source4: %{name}.cron
-
-Requires: php, php-gd, php-ldap, php-mbstring, php-mysql, php-pdo, php-process, php-snmp, php-xml
+Patch0: cacti-fix-php7-db-access.patch
+
+# Requires PHP 5.3+
+Requires: php(language) >= 5.3
+
+# DB access is managed via pdo_mysql
+Requires: php-pdo_mysql
+
+# Core PHP libs/extensions required by Cacti
+Requires: php-pdo
+Requires: php-reflection
+Requires: php-simplexml
+Requires: php-ctype
+Requires: php-date
+Requires: php-dom
+Requires: php-filter
+Requires: php-gd
+Requires: php-iconv
+Requires: php-imap
+Requires: php-intl
+Requires: php-json
+Requires: php-ldap
+Requires: php-mbstring
+Requires: php-openssl
+Requires: php-pcntl
+Requires: php-posix
+Requires: php-session
+Requires: php-snmp
+Requires: php-sockets
+Requires: php-spl
+Requires: php-xml
+Requires: php-zlib
+
+# Cacti Requirements
 Requires: mysql 
 Requires: httpd
 Requires: rrdtool
 Requires: net-snmp, net-snmp-utils
 Requires: crontabs
+
 Requires(pre): %{_sbindir}/useradd
 Requires(postun): /sbin/service
 Provides: bundled(js-jquery) = 3.1.0
@@ -34,6 +67,7 @@ driven.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 
 %build
 # cacti's build is a noop
@@ -127,6 +161,10 @@ fi
 %attr(-,root,root) %{_localstatedir}/lib/%{name}/lib
 
 %changelog
+* Sat May 13 2017 Morten Stevens <mstevens@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.6-2
+- Fix PHP requirements
+- Cacti db access not compatible with PHP 7 (#1450578)
+
 * Mon May 08 2017 Morten Stevens <mstevens@fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.6-1
 - Update to 1.1.6