Looking for some validation help

<?php
/*

PunBB Active Topics

Copyright 2004-2005 Alex King, http://www.alexking.org/

This is a mod for PunBB, http://www.punbb.org/
PunBB is Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004  Rickard Andersson (rickard@punbb.org)

This file is based on the viewtopic.php file in PunBB.

-------------------------------
*/

$ak_limit = 10; // change this to the number of active topics you want to display.

$result = $db->query('
    SELECT p.poster_id AS has_posted, t.* 
    FROM '.$db->prefix.'topics AS t 

LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'posts AS p ON p.id=p.topic_id AND p.poster_id='.$pun_user['id'].' 
    INNER JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forums AS f 
    ON f.id=t.forum_id 
    LEFT JOIN '.$db->prefix.'forum_perms AS fp 
    ON (
        fp.forum_id=f.id 
        AND fp.group_id='.$pun_user['g_id'].'
    ) 
    WHERE (
        fp.read_forum IS NULL 
        OR fp.read_forum=1
    ) 
    GROUP BY t.id
    ORDER BY t.last_post DESC
    LIMIT '.$ak_limit
) or error('Unable to fetch topic list', __FILE__, __LINE__, $db->error());

require PUN_ROOT.'lang/'.$pun_user['language'].'/forum.php';

$new_topics = get_all_new_topics();

?>

<div id="vf" class="blocktable">
    <h2><span>Latest Active Topics</span></h2>


    <div class="box">
        <div class="inbox">
            <table cellspacing="0">
            <thead>
                <tr><th style="border-left: 0px;" class="tc0"> </th>
                    <th class="tcl" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Topic'] ?></th>
                    <th class="tc2" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Replies'] ?></th>
                    <th class="tc3" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_forum['Views'] ?></th>
                    <th class="tcr" scope="col"><?php echo $lang_common['Last post'] ?></th>
                </tr>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
<?php

// If there are topics in this forum.
if ($db->num_rows($result))
{
// added for forum row differnetial colors
$alt = true;
// added for forum row differnetial colors

    while ($cur_topic = $db->fetch_assoc($result))
    {
// added for forum row differnetial colors
    $alt = !$alt;
// added for forum row differnetial colors

        $icon_text = $lang_common['Normal icon'];
        $item_status = '';
        $icon_type = 'icon';

        if ($cur_topic['moved_to'] == null)
            $last_post = '<a href="viewtopic.php?pid='.$cur_topic['last_post_id'].'#p'.$cur_topic['last_post_id'].'">'.format_time($cur_topic['last_post']).'</a> <br /><span class="byuser">'.$lang_common['by'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['last_poster']).'</span>';
        else
            $last_post = ' ';

        if ($pun_config['o_censoring'] == '1')
            $cur_topic['subject'] = censor_words($cur_topic['subject']);

        if ($cur_topic['moved_to'] != 0) {
            $item_status .= 'imoved';
            $icon_type = 'icon imoved';
            $subject = $lang_forum['Moved'].': <a href="viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['moved_to'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject']).'</a> <br /><span class="byuser">'.$lang_common['by'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['poster']).'</span>';
}
        else if ($cur_topic['closed'] == '0')
            $subject = '<a href="viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject']).'</a> <span class=""><br />'.$lang_common['by'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['poster']).'</span>';
        else
        {
            $subject = '<a href="viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id'].'">'.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['subject']).'</a> <br /><span class="byuser">'.$lang_common['by'].' '.pun_htmlspecialchars($cur_topic['poster']).'</span>';
            $icon_text = $lang_common['Closed icon'];
            $item_status = 'iclosed';
        }
                            // gleek edit
                        if ($cur_topic['num_replies'] >= $pun_config['o_hot_count'])
                        {
                                $item_status .= 'ihot';
                                $icon_type = 'icon ihot';
                        }
        if (!$pun_user['is_guest'] && topic_is_new($cur_topic['id'], $id,  $cur_topic['last_post']) && $cur_topic['moved_to'] == null)
        {
            $icon_text .= ' '.$lang_common['New icon'];
            $item_status .= ' inew';
            $icon_type = 'icon inew';
            $subject = '<strong>'.$subject.'</strong>';
            $subject_new_posts = '<span class="newtext">[<a href="viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id'].'&action=new" title="'.$lang_common['New posts info'].'">'.$lang_common['New posts'].'</a>]</span>';
        }
        else
            $subject_new_posts = null;

        // Should we display the dot or not? :)
        if (!$pun_user['is_guest'] && $pun_config['o_show_dot'] == '1')
        {
            if ($cur_topic['has_posted'] == $pun_user['id'])
                $subject = '<img src="img/'.$pun_user['style'].'/buttons/btn_just_posted.png" title="'.$lang_forum['User has just posted'].'" alt="'.$lang_forum['User has just posted'].'" /> '.$subject;
            else
                $subject = '  '.$subject;
        }

        if ($cur_topic['sticky'] == '1')
        {
            $subject = '<span class="stickytext">'.$lang_forum['Sticky'].': </span>'.$subject;
            $item_status .= ' isticky';
            $icon_text .= ' '.$lang_forum['Sticky'];
        }

        $num_pages_topic = ceil(($cur_topic['num_replies'] + 1) / $pun_user['disp_posts']);

        if ($num_pages_topic > 1)
            $subject_multipage = '[ '.paginate($num_pages_topic, -1, 'viewtopic.php?id='.$cur_topic['id']).' ]';
        else
            $subject_multipage = null;

        // Should we show the "New posts" and/or the multipage links?
        if (!empty($subject_new_posts) || !empty($subject_multipage))
        {
            $subject .= '  '.(!empty($subject_new_posts) ? $subject_new_posts : '');
            $subject .= !empty($subject_multipage) ? ' '.$subject_multipage : '';
        }
// added for forum row differnetial colors
if ($alt)
{
    $item_status .= 'alt';
}
// added for forum row differnetial colors
?>
                <tr<?php if ($item_status != '') echo ' class="'.trim($item_status).'"'; ?>>
            <td style="border-left: 0;" class="tc0"><div class="<?php echo $icon_type ?>"> </div></td>
                    <td class="tc1"><?php echo $subject."\n" ?> </td>


                    <td class="tc2"><?php echo ($cur_topic['moved_to'] == null) ? $cur_topic['num_replies'] : ' ' ?></td>
                    <td class="tc3"><?php echo ($cur_topic['moved_to'] == null) ? $cur_topic['num_views'] : ' ' ?></td>


<?php
        if ($cur_topic['moved_to'] != 0) {
            $item_status .= 'imoved';
            $icon_type = 'icon imoved';
            echo '<td class="tcr"><img src="'.$pun_config['o_base_url'].'/img/topic_moved.gif" alt="Topic Moved" title="Topic Moved" /> Topic Moved</td>';
}else {


?>


                    <td class="tcr"><?php echo $last_post ?></td>
                </tr>
<?php
}
    }
}
else
{

?>
                <tr>
                    <td class="tcl" colspan="5"><?php echo $lang_forum['Empty forum'] ?></td>
                </tr>
<?php

}

?>
            </tbody>
            </table>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>