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 ...

}