Originally Posted by Andrew R Salathe, the reason why we don't have those discussions is because we don't have much PHP developers here. If you go over to sitepoint, they have several going on at one time. :\

well yes, it's probably true. i came here some time ago and found basic questions which is averagely the same with ones i read in programming talk. sitepoint is pretty good, but if you want the hardcore, join official php mailing list (especially internals).