if i do use Editors it's vi or gedit - or textwrangler on OS X
But: I rarely use standalone Editors. Especially when connecting Databases you often have a bunc of files. So i do use an IDE and group those files to projects. IMHO the best IDE for PHP is Netbeans 7.x !
Good Editor, brilliant Code Completion ( works for Filenames in Project too), Good hints and Error-Listings for HTML,CSS,Javascript, PHP and SQL. Integrates and works with Xdebug, PHPUnit and a lot more. I have seen some IDEs ( up to PDT PHPEclipse or PHPStorm and so on) but i really prefer using Netbeans.
i Just open up a empty Subversion Repository check it out as a new Project, tell Netbeans wich Folder of the Project is to contain my Sources and where to mirror them to a local or remote Apache and start working and i rarely have to leave the IDE.