diff --git a/reference/solr/solrclient/construct.xml b/reference/solr/solrclient/construct.xml
index 223cc4b9ee..2c76a66ff0 100644
--- a/reference/solr/solrclient/construct.xml
+++ b/reference/solr/solrclient/construct.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@
  - hostname        (The hostname for the Solr server)
  - port            (The port number)
  - path            (The path to solr)
+ - wt              (The name of the response writer e.g. xml, phpnative)
  - login           (The username used for HTTP Authentication, if any)
  - password        (The HTTP Authentication password)
  - proxy_host      (The hostname for the proxy server, if any)
@@ -78,6 +79,8 @@ $options = array
     'login'    => SOLR_SERVER_USERNAME,
     'password' => SOLR_SERVER_PASSWORD,
     'port'     => SOLR_SERVER_PORT,
+    'path'     => SOLR_PATH_TO_SOLR,
+    'wt'       => SOLR_PHP_NATIVE_RESPONSE_WRITER,
 );
 
 $client = new SolrClient($options);
diff --git a/reference/solr/solrclient/setresponsewriter.xml b/reference/solr/solrclient/setresponsewriter.xml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..702db72125
--- /dev/null
+++ b/reference/solr/solrclient/setresponsewriter.xml
@@ -0,0 +1,156 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- $Revision$ -->
+
+<refentry xml:id="solrclient.setresponsewriter" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
+ <refnamediv>
+  <refname>SolrClient::setResponseWriter</refname>
+  <refpurpose>Sets the response writer used to prepare the response from Solr</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsect1 role="description">
+  &reftitle.description;
+  <methodsynopsis>
+   <modifier>public</modifier> <type>void</type><methodname>SolrClient::setResponseWriter</methodname>
+   <methodparam><type>string</type><parameter>responseWriter</parameter></methodparam>
+  </methodsynopsis>
+  <para>
+   Sets the response writer used to prepare the response from Solr
+  </para>
+
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="parameters">
+  &reftitle.parameters;
+  <para>
+   <variablelist>
+    <varlistentry>
+     <term><parameter>responseWriter</parameter></term>
+     <listitem>
+      <para>One of the following :</para>
+      <para>
+<![CDATA[
+ - xml
+ - phpnative
+]]>
+      </para>
+     </listitem>
+    </varlistentry>
+   </variablelist>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1 role="returnvalues">
+  &reftitle.returnvalues;
+  <para>
+  &return.void;
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+ 
+ <refsect1 role="examples">
+  &reftitle.examples;
+  <para>
+   <example>
+    <title><methodname>SolrClient::setResponseWriter</methodname> example</title>
+    <programlisting role="php">
+<![CDATA[
+
+<?php
+
+// This is my custom class for objects
+class SolrClass
+{
+   public $_properties = array();
+
+   public function __get($property_name) {
+      
+      if (property_exists($this, $property_name)) {
+      
+      	return $this->$property_name;
+      
+      } else if (isset($_properties[$property_name])) {
+      
+      	return $_properties[$property_name];
+      }
+      
+      return null;
+   }
+}
+
+$options = array
+(
+  'hostname' => 'localhost',
+  'port' => 8983,
+  'path' => '/solr/core1'
+);
+
+$client = new SolrClient($options);
+
+// This uses the org.apache.solr.request.PHPNativeResponseWriter class on Solr
+// Visit the following pages for more details
+// https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1967
+// http://wiki.apache.org/solr/QueryResponseWriter
+// http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolPHP
+$client->setResponseWriter("phpnative");
+
+//$response = $client->ping();
+
+$query = new SolrQuery();
+
+$query->setQuery("*:*");
+
+$query->set("objectClassName", "SolrClass");
+
+$query->set("objectPropertiesStorageMode", 1); // 0 for independent properties, 1 for combined
+
+try
+{
+
+$response = $client->query($query);
+
+$resp = $response->getResponse();
+
+print_r($response);
+
+print_r($resp);
+
+} catch (Exception $e) {
+
+print_r($e);
+
+}
+
+?>
+]]>
+    </programlisting>
+    &example.outputs.similar;
+    <screen>
+<![CDATA[
+
+]]>
+    </screen>
+   </example>
+  </para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+</refentry>
+
+<!-- Keep this comment at the end of the file
+Local variables:
+mode: sgml
+sgml-omittag:t
+sgml-shorttag:t
+sgml-minimize-attributes:nil
+sgml-always-quote-attributes:t
+sgml-indent-step:1
+sgml-indent-data:t
+indent-tabs-mode:nil
+sgml-parent-document:nil
+sgml-default-dtd-file:"~/.phpdoc/manual.ced"
+sgml-exposed-tags:nil
+sgml-local-catalogs:nil
+sgml-local-ecat-files:nil
+End:
+vim600: syn=xml fen fdm=syntax fdl=2 si
+vim: et tw=78 syn=sgml
+vi: ts=1 sw=1
+-->
diff --git a/reference/solr/versions.xml b/reference/solr/versions.xml
index 0c58a50962..a457d295bc 100644
--- a/reference/solr/versions.xml
+++ b/reference/solr/versions.xml
@@ -73,6 +73,7 @@
  <function name='solrclient::__wakeup' from='PECL solr &gt;= 0.9.2'/>
  <function name='solrclient::__clone' from='PECL solr &gt;= 0.9.2'/>
  <function name='solrclient::setservlet' from='PECL solr &gt;= 0.9.2'/>
+ <function name='solrclient::setresponsewriter' from='PECL solr &gt;= 0.9.11'/>
  <function name='solrclient::getoptions' from='PECL solr &gt;= 0.9.6'/>
  <function name='solrclient::getdebug' from='PECL solr &gt;= 0.9.7'/>
  <function name='solrclient::query' from='PECL solr &gt;= 0.9.2'/>