You are considering whether to buy a product. You look at the reviews. Would the following review decrease or increase the chances of you buying the product?
Review title: Book for a newbie
Product review: Fantastic book, with working examples and footnotes. It also contains a CD with the necessery software to install Apache, PHP, and mySQL to a personal computer, allowing the reader to immediately dive into learning the language. Saves a lot of time if you ask me. Although the book doesn't explain every command from top to bottom, you will learn the easy stuff very quickly and come aware of PHP's potentiality. The book has everything a beginning writer needs and I recomend they buy this before any other book. But for a slightly more experience developer it has little to offer. And for some reason, the author has left a few important topics totally uncovered and some topics only briefly introduced. Still, this doesn't change the fact that it's a great book!! If you wanna start writing PHP, this is the best way to go.
