[Eander]

This is pretty easy. First thing you want to do is open up forumdisplay.php and look towards the end of the file (for me it was around line 633) for

PHP Code:

eval("\$forumdisplaybits .= \"".gettemplate('forumdisplaybit')."\";"); 


replace that with...

PHP Code:

if (substr($thread[newoldhot],0,3)=="new") {
$italics="<i>";
}
    eval("\$forumdisplaybits .= \"".gettemplate('forumdisplaybit')."\";");
$italics=""; 


Then edit the forumdisplaybit template, inserting $italics after

<td bgcolor="#13486D" align="left" width="70%"><normalfont>