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.

Lazarus 1.17 beta 1

Subject says it all really. This is beta 1 of Lazarus 1.17. If all is well will push it out on Friday.

Changelog for 1.17

Fixed - Undefined entity error when checking HTML with Gravatars enabled
Fixed - Error message due to log writing when using SMTP failed
Fixed - Use external css setting not being remembered
Fixed - Issue with CSS of navigation under sign guestbook link
Fixed - Entries with images in admin were still using EnlargeIt code
Fixed - Gravatar code now uses & instead of &
Fixed - Division by 0 error in statistics when you had no comments

Changed - Major rewrite of admin.php to tighten up security
Changed - Uploaded files that fail image check are instantly deleted
Changed - Removed PHP Info from admin
Changed - Dimensions of YouTube videos is now hard coded in
Changed - Redesigned admin again
Changed - Rewrote bad word censoring to be faster
Changed - Better checking of submitted homepage urls

Added - Link to forums in admin