SOLR_SERVER_HOSTNAME, 'login' => SOLR_SERVER_USERNAME, 'password' => SOLR_SERVER_PASSWORD, 'port' => SOLR_SERVER_PORT, 'path' => SOLR_SERVER_PATH, ); $client = new SolrClient($options); $doc = new SolrInputDocument(); $doc->addField('id', 334455); $doc->addField('cat', 'Software'); $doc->addField('cat', 'Lucene'); $updateResponse = $client->addDocument($doc); print_r($updateResponse->getResponse()); /* you will have to commit changes to be written if you didn't use $commitWithin */ $client->commit();