Hello,
My name is Ivan Hueso, and I'm a experienced web developer. I have worked with zend framework on previous projects and I understand the complexity of it and how heavy it is. I still believe Zend is a good framework, but it depends project by project on what framework to use. There are other several php frameworks like cakephp, code igniter, or even laravel, that are so much lighter and easier to understand. But again it depends of the project, and if its a really small one, you may not choose anyone and go with plain php as you mentioned.
I speak english and spanish, I live in USA, but I'm from Argentina.
I'm new on this platform, but I'm looking forward to grow by the time by doing a good job.
I'm available now to start working on your project,
Looking forward to hear from you,
Thank you
Ivan Hueso