diff --git a/extra/php/PKGBUILD b/extra/php/PKGBUILD
index 423176ddf..5ea0b764c 100644
--- a/extra/php/PKGBUILD
+++ b/extra/php/PKGBUILD
@@ -24,11 +24,11 @@ pkgname=('php'
          'php-tidy'
          'php-xsl')
 pkgver=8.1.13
-pkgrel=1
+pkgrel=4
 arch=('x86_64')
 license=('PHP')
 url='https://www.php.net/'
-makedepends=('apache' 'aspell' 'c-client' 'db' 'gdbm' 'enchant' 'gd' 'gmp' 'icu' 'libsodium' 'libxslt' 'libzip' 'net-snmp'
+makedepends=('apache' 'aspell' 'c-client' 'gdbm' 'enchant' 'gd' 'gmp' 'icu' 'libsodium' 'libxslt' 'libzip' 'net-snmp'
              'postgresql-libs' 'sqlite' 'systemd' 'tidy' 'unixodbc' 'curl' 'libtool' 'postfix' 'freetds' 'pcre2' 'libnsl'
              'oniguruma')
 checkdepends=('procps-ng')
@@ -93,7 +93,6 @@ build() {
 		--enable-sysvshm=shared \
 		--with-bz2=shared \
 		--with-curl=shared \
-		--with-db4=/usr \
 		--with-enchant=shared \
 		--with-external-gd \
 		--with-external-pcre \
@@ -183,7 +182,7 @@ check() {
 
 package_php() {
 	pkgdesc='A general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development'
-	depends=('libxml2' 'curl' 'libzip' 'pcre2' 'argon2' 'oniguruma' 'db' 'gdbm')
+	depends=('libxml2' 'curl' 'libzip' 'pcre2' 'argon2' 'oniguruma' 'gdbm')
 	replaces=('php-ldap')
 	conflicts=('php-ldap')
 	provides=("php-interpreter=$_interpreter" "php-ldap=${pkgver}")
diff --git a/extra/php/db6_compat.patch b/extra/php/db6_compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..563ae4f85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/php/db6_compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- aaa/ext/dba/config.m4	2022-12-11 16:33:02.721079548 +0100
++++ bbb/ext/dba/config.m4	2022-12-11 16:33:59.821200682 +0100
+@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
+         ]])],[
+           AC_EGREP_CPP(yes,[
+ #include "$THIS_INCLUDE"
+-#if DB_VERSION_MAJOR == $1 || ($1 == 4 && DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 5)
++#if DB_VERSION_MAJOR == $1 || ($1 == 4 && DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 5) || ($1 == 4 && DB_VERSION_MAJOR == 6)
+             yes
+ #endif
+           ],[