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.

My guestbook

Administration

General options

General settings

Lazarus has 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.

Lazarus is released under the GNU/GPL license.

Major Features of Lazarus

• Powerful spam fighting controls
  • Use Captcha or Saptcha to prevent automated posting
  • Each guestbook generates a unique form
  • Time delay before guests can post
  • Time limit on how long a guest has to post
  • Moderate entries before they appear in your guestbook
  • Block or moderate posts containing bad words
  • Ban ips or even ip blocks from posting
  • Block posts containing to many urls
• Apart from their name and their message your guests can tell you their…
  • Email address. You can even make email addresses required
  • Location
  • Website
  • Yahoo! messenger id
  • Live (MSN) id
  • AIM id
  • ICQ uin
  • Skype id
  • Even their gender
  • And guests can upload an image with their posts
• Other features
  • Powerful AGCode for formatting entries or even displaying pictures and Flash
  • Allow HTML in entries but control which tags can be used
  • Create thumbnails for images that have a large file size
  • Automatic resizing of images and Flash files displayed in entries
  • Graphical smileys (emoticons)
  • Previewing of entries
  • Other guests can comment on existing entries
  • Email notification of new entries and comments
  • Thank you email sent to guests after posting new entry
  • Search function
  • Email address encryption to prevent the addresses being harvested by spammers
  • Flood controls to prevent people from flooding your guestbook with entries

Installing Lazarus (free pascal) on ubuntu 14.04