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.

1.12 beta 3

Just for the sheer hell of it here is beta 3 of Lazarus 1.12. Most changes are to the admin section with the only other big change being the new header check to help fight spam.

Changelog for 1.12

Fixed - PHP Notice preventing captcha working on some servers
Fixed - Restored the htaccess file to keep people out of admin folder
Fixed - Allowed tags regex is now less greedy
Fixed - Lazarus was always saying smileys were off on comment form

Added - Header checks to try and combat spam
Added - Wordpress style admin links in easy edit section of admin

Changed - Redesigned admin login form
Changed - Increased number of characters for allowed HTML tags
Changed - Default colours used for guestbook
Changed - Colours used in admin
Changed - Admin menu is now fixed using CSS instead of Javascript