is sublime compatible enough for PHP developers

It is, you just gotta get used to it. Learn the shortcuts, use snippets, macros and you will do just fine.

It depends. You can manage to make Sublime very close to IDE-like and it will feel the same. Personally i am using PHP storm. PHP storm includes a lot even things you will never use. Thing is - you just need to spend more time on Sublime then on PHPStorm. Both is great

PHPStorm is really awesome and fantastic as @Kemito said but i couldn't adapt with sublime , i will try again with sublime until buy the phpstorm :D

I like sublime a lot. Use it on php developpment every day without any issue. Tried phpstorm but felt too feature heavy for me. Guess it's down to personnal taste, i think both are good and can get the job done.

I code only with sublime. phpstorm is too heavy for me too.

I'm actually taking an eye on atom these days and it matured a lot. I think it will be my favorite editor soon.

@pmall I would like to know of any sublime package for autocomplete and namespacing like in phpstorm.Apart from that I dont miss anything in sublime badly! :P

Of course there is packages for it I dont remember their names.

I use them both. PHP Storm for normal and Sublime when I'm feeling quick and dirty. I've got a Mac Book Pro with 16GB ram so I really don't notice any speed differences that others mention in PHP Storm vs. Sublime.

I use Sublime Text to develop in just about every language that I code in. @JeffreyWay has stated that he will do a Sublime Text workflow soon in another thread. In the meantime, if you just want to learn some of the basics until that series comes out, he also did one a while back for Tuts+ but this is based on Sublime Text 2 (the link is right above his comment), and I assume the new series will be covering Sublime Text 3. More good news if you stay with Sublime: it has a vintage mode, which will allow you to use vi shortcuts in the editor. Once you get the hang of it, it greatly reduces the number of times that you have to move your mouse and this makes you more productive.

@ahmedash95 - I got to using PHP Storm after watching Jeff's videos on Laracasts. Fundamentally because a video tutorial on using an IDE is a much greater way to learn than a readme. After watching Jeff in action I picked it up pretty quickly.

I also tried using Sublime a month after becoming reasonably competent in Storm and I struggled with it. Settings and Key Mappings in JSON seemed odd (lazy perhaps), lack of decent PHP support out of the box and it just being difficult to change the background colour really p*ssed me off. But you know what, after reading Matt Stauffer's blog I gave ST3 another go and was pleasantly surprised. It's a damn site faster than Storm and the Material theme is just awesome.

Now Jeff has brought out his series on ST3 Mastery...I'm learning VIM and in the process of becoming even faster than I was in Storm. I recommend you watch the series and give it a go.

@ahmedash95 Use whatever text editor/IDE you’re comfortable with. Personally, I use TextMate 2 (and think I’m the only person in the world who does).

IntelliJelli (phpStorm) folks are awesome! If you have something of decent opensource project on github they will give you a free 1 year license and will update it too.

I'm pretty much old school and use BBedit since I paid for it years ago. I've gotten so used to it that I'm having trouble to move to phpStorm since I having several projects open at once (imagine 8-10 browser windows with 50 plus tabs open at once).

I really need togive phpStorm more a chance but ... old habits ... :-)