Lazarus is a free guestbook script written in PHP that uses your MySQL database for storage and is based upon the excellent Advanced Guestbook script from Proxy2.

I took the Advanced Guestbook and added more features and several layers of anti spam protection to make one of the most feature rich and spam resistant guestbook scripts available for free.

I am always active on the forums and you can rest assured that if the spammers find a way past the current anti spam methods that I have others waiting in the wings. You can read my own guestbook to see what other people have had to say about Lazarus and my anti spam fixes for Advanced Guestbook.

1.25 beta 1

Wow almost a year since the last release. I have been lazy. Anyway here is the beta of 1.25 which is mainly to fix issues that have come about thanks to changes in PHP 7. It also fixes some other minor issues.

Fixed - Should work with PHP 7 now
Fixed - Textarea content no longer censored when previewing
Fixed - Database connection errors now correctly explained
Fixed - Installer will display database connection errors
Fixed - Installer was hard coded to use mysql file
Fixed - captcha.php was hardcoded to use mysql.class.php
Fixed - Smileys not shown in admin entries if disabled