C3rd

Before back in college, I used UltraEdit, then Notepad++ as my HTML JS, CSS and PHP editor. I even tried Dreamweaver and it sucks for me. I also tried Ecplise and its way heavy application, too slow to load. I've been using NetBeans IDE for a while now. I met a PHP programmer and mention about phpStorm and got curious. So I downloaded phpStorm 7.0 and tested it out myself. I still find NetBeans as the Best IDE. Though I like the UI of phpStorm, I find it so COOL (see screenshot below) but (geeezz!) its too pricy will cost you $99 for personal license. Loading performance, I still voted for NetBeans. Features like FTP, SSH, Git, SVN etc -- most likely they have both NetBeans and phpStorm.

 I guess, I felt the same with other PHP developers about NetBeans, phpStorm, Eclipse and other IDEs. See: http://www.warriorforum.com/programming-talk/637270-eclipse-vs-netbeans-vs-phpstorm.html