diff --git a/archivers/php5-snappy/Makefile b/archivers/pecl-snappy/Makefile
similarity index 70%
rename from archivers/php5-snappy/Makefile
rename to archivers/pecl-snappy/Makefile
index 9f0d8ef336e6..83195f1e09b7 100644
--- a/archivers/php5-snappy/Makefile
+++ b/archivers/pecl-snappy/Makefile
@@ -2,27 +2,23 @@
 # $FreeBSD$
 
 PORTNAME=	php5-snappy
-PORTVERSION=	0.0.2
-PORTREVISION=	2
+PORTVERSION=	0.1.5
 CATEGORIES=	archivers
-MASTER_SITES=	GOOGLE_CODE
-PROJECTHOST=	php-snappy
-DISTNAME=	${PROJECTHOST}-${PORTVERSION}
 
 MAINTAINER=	ports@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	PHP extension for the snappy compression algorithm
 
 LICENSE=	BSD2CLAUSE
 
-BROKEN=		Unfetchable (google code has gone away)
-
 LIB_DEPENDS=	libsnappy.so:archivers/snappy
 
 USES=		php:ext
+USE_GITHUB=	yes
+GH_ACCOUNT=	kjdev
+GH_PROJECT=	php-ext-snappy
 PHP_MODNAME=	snappy
 CONFIGURE_ARGS=	--with-snappy-includedir=${LOCALBASE}/include
-WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/${PROJECTHOST}
-IGNORE_WITH_PHP=	70
+WRKSRC=		${WRKDIR}/php-ext-snappy-${PORTVERSION}
 
 do-test:
 	(cd ${WRKSRC} && ${DO_MAKE_BUILD} NO_INTERACTION=yes test < /dev/null)
diff --git a/archivers/pecl-snappy/distinfo b/archivers/pecl-snappy/distinfo
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f4224e10de84
--- /dev/null
+++ b/archivers/pecl-snappy/distinfo
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+TIMESTAMP = 1473896952
+SHA256 (kjdev-php-ext-snappy-0.1.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 78d407290ca7d75eed5127642d8dcb5c08a71ec611efa5f197980e48b3623dab
+SIZE (kjdev-php-ext-snappy-0.1.5_GH0.tar.gz) = 9516
diff --git a/archivers/php5-snappy/pkg-descr b/archivers/pecl-snappy/pkg-descr
similarity index 100%
rename from archivers/php5-snappy/pkg-descr
rename to archivers/pecl-snappy/pkg-descr
diff --git a/archivers/php5-snappy/distinfo b/archivers/php5-snappy/distinfo
deleted file mode 100644
index a3a90d0bc716..000000000000
--- a/archivers/php5-snappy/distinfo
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,2 +0,0 @@
-SHA256 (php-snappy-0.0.2.tar.gz) = 7aa6be88e09985fc0f9054b3e3d06612383aaacbbc6db705913ad7d047dc9cd9
-SIZE (php-snappy-0.0.2.tar.gz) = 6801
diff --git a/archivers/php5-snappy/files/patch-config.m4 b/archivers/php5-snappy/files/patch-config.m4
deleted file mode 100644
index ee75b443f980..000000000000
--- a/archivers/php5-snappy/files/patch-config.m4
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
---- config.m4.orig	2011-09-07 08:27:21 UTC
-+++ config.m4
-@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ if test "$PHP_SNAPPY" != "no"; then
- 
-   if test "$PHP_SNAPPY_INCLUDEDIR" != "no" && test "$PHP_SNAPPY_INCLUDEDIR" != "yes"; then
-     if test -r "$PHP_SNAPPY_INCLUDEDIR/snappy.h"; then
--      SNAPPY_DIR="$PHP_SNAPPY_INCLUDEDIR"
-+      SNAPPY_DIR="$(dirname $PHP_SNAPPY_INCLUDEDIR)"
-     else
-       AC_MSG_ERROR([Can't find snappy headers under "$PHP_SNAPPY_INCLUDEDIR"])
-     fi
-@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ if test "$PHP_SNAPPY" != "no"; then
-     SEARCH_PATH="/usr/local /usr"     # you might want to change this
-     SEARCH_FOR="/include/snappy-c.h"  # you most likely want to change this
-     if test -r $PHP_SNAPPY/$SEARCH_FOR; then # path given as parameter
--      SNAPPY_DIR="$PHP_SNAPPY/include"
-+      SNAPPY_DIR="$PHP_SNAPPY"
-     else # search default path list
-       AC_MSG_CHECKING([for snappy files in default path])
-       for i in $SEARCH_PATH ; do
-         if test -r $i/$SEARCH_FOR; then
--          SNAPPY_DIR="$i/include"
-+          SNAPPY_DIR="$i"
-           AC_MSG_RESULT(found in $i)
-         fi
-       done
-@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ if test "$PHP_SNAPPY" != "no"; then
- 
-   dnl # add include path
- 
--  PHP_ADD_INCLUDE($SNAPPY_DIR)
-+  PHP_ADD_INCLUDE([$SNAPPY_DIR/include])
- 
-   dnl # check for lib
- 
-@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ if test "$PHP_SNAPPY" != "no"; then
-   AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS
-   AC_TRY_COMPILE(
-   [
--    #include "$SNAPPY_DIR/snappy-c.h"
-+    #include "$SNAPPY_DIR/include/snappy-c.h"
-   ],[
-     snappy_max_compressed_length(1);
-   ],[