diff --git a/UltiSnips/php.snippets b/UltiSnips/php.snippets
index 7ba51c7..c7344a5 100644
--- a/UltiSnips/php.snippets
+++ b/UltiSnips/php.snippets
@@ -1,5 +1,14 @@
 priority -50
 
+global !p
+import vim
+
+# Set g:ultisnips_php_scalar_types to 1 if you'd like to enable PHP 7's scalar types for return values
+def isPHPScalarTypesEnabled():
+	isEnabled = vim.eval("get(g:, 'ultisnips_php_scalar_types', 0)") == "1"
+	return isEnabled or re.match('<\?php\s+declare\(strict_types=[01]\);', '\n'.join(vim.current.window.buffer))
+endglobal
+
 ## Snippets from SnipMate, taken from
 ## https://github.com/scrooloose/snipmate-snippets.git
 
@@ -9,7 +18,7 @@ snippet gm "PHP Class Getter" b
  *
  * @return ${2:string}
  */
-public function get${1/\w+\s*/\u$0/}()
+public function get${1/\w+\s*/\u$0/}()`!p snip.rv = ': '+t[2] if isPHPScalarTypesEnabled() else ''`
 {
     return $this->$1;
 }
@@ -36,7 +45,7 @@ snippet gs "PHP Class Getter Setter" b
  *
  * @return ${2:string}
  */
-public function get${1/\w+\s*/\u$0/}()
+public function get${1/\w+\s*/\u$0/}()`!p snip.rv = ': '+t[2] if isPHPScalarTypesEnabled() else ''`
 {
     return $this->$1;
 }
diff --git a/snippets/php.snippets b/snippets/php.snippets
index 4faa167..0644859 100644
--- a/snippets/php.snippets
+++ b/snippets/php.snippets
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@ snippet <?
 	<?php
 
 	${0}
+snippet dst "declare(strict_types=1)"
+	declare(strict_types=${1:1});
 snippet ec
 	echo ${0};
 snippet <?e