How to insert this using Solr PHP?

I am switching between building the query to a Solr instance by hand and doing it with PHP Solr Extension. I have this query that my dev partner said to insert before all the other column searches. What kind of query is it and how do I get it into the query in an 'OOP' style using the PHP

Re: How to insert this using Solr PHP?

I'm interested in what is the part in the query 'q={!.}. Is that a filter query? It is in local params syntax. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/LocalParams