PhpStorm

Any developer that wants to level up their game and move beyond the free tools available should consider using PhptStorm or other Jetbrains IDE. They are ideal for developers where version control is important and provide most of the vital features developers need out of the box compared to free alternatives.

PhpStorm is great for writing PHP code bases of any size. It's a nice general purpose text editor, but the high memory usage makes it inappropriate for small editing situations. However, if you have a serious application, especially built on one of the major frameworks like Symphony or Laravel, the ability to navigate within the codebase is unparalleled.

It is great in a team setting where collaboration is needed. The AI integration works very well and makes it easier to get code completed. The search is incredibly good when you need to find lines of code somewhere. They also have the ability to collaborate with teammates directly in the software, allowing teammates to view your code in realtime with you and review code and make changes like a Google Doc.

In general, PhpStorm is a very complete IDE, although it is good for small projects, its strength is the management of large projects, its indexing helps you know where things are, its search engine is wonderful, and as I mentioned before, it becomes even more powerful with its plugins to enhance weak points, its integrated AI tool is very good, both for generating code, resolving doubts or refactoring complete flows.

PHPStorm is suited for all developers who write code for websites on PHP, HTML, Javascript, HTML, etc. PHPStorm is especially very powerfull in understanding your code and working with the code. You can consider PHPStorm as swiss knife that have quite a lot of tools in it.
However, I can't imagine my work without PHPStorm at this point - it really saves me hundred of hours/ year, especially at refactoring tasks.

PHPStorm requires quite amount of RAM to work correctly, so it might not be best solution for low-end machines or just fast and simple file edits.