function render_entry($topic) {
		global $DB, $std, $ibforums;
		
		$topic['last_text']   = $ibforums->lang['last_post_by'];
		
		$topic['last_poster'] = ($topic['last_poster_id'] != 0)
								? "<a href='{$this->base_url}showuser={$topic['last_poster_id']}'>{$topic['last_poster_name']}</a>"
								: "-".$topic['last_poster_name']."-";
								
		$topic['starter']     = ($topic['starter_id']     != 0)
								? "<a href='{$this->base_url}showuser={$topic['starter_id']}'>{$topic['starter_name']}</a>"
								: "-".$topic['starter_name']."-";
	 
		if ($topic['poll_state'])
		{
			$topic['prefix']     = $ibforums->vars['pre_polls'].' ';
		}
		
		if ( ($ibforums->member['id']) and ($topic['author_id']) )
		{
			$show_dots = 1;
		}
	
		$topic['folder_img']     = $std->folder_icon($topic, $show_dots, $this->read_array[$topic['tid']]);
		
		// My modified code here
		if ( $topic['topic_icon']     = $topic['icon_id']  ) {
					if (is_numeric($topic['icon_id'])) {
					"<img src='".$ibforums->vars['img_url']."/icon{$topic['icon_id']}.gif' alt='{$topic['icon_id']}' />";
					} else {
					"<span class='text-icon {$topic['icon_id']}'>{$topic['icon_id']}</span>";
					}
				} else {
				 "";
				 }

		/* THE ORIGINAL HERE
		$topic['topic_icon']     = $topic['icon_id']  ? '<img src="'.$ibforums->vars['img_url'] . '/icon' . $topic['icon_id'] . '.gif" border="0" alt="' . $topic['icon_id'] . '" />'
													  : '&nbsp;';
		END ORIGINAL */

// some other code ...

}