Processing an array to form another one

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I am converting a site of mine to smarty, however i am having a little trouble creating this array.

 

The problem is that i use a function called textile to parse the text from my database. For textile to work it needs to take in the news variable and process it. In this case it is processing it into "$processedtext".

 

As it is now all it produces is array, for each output. How can i change the bottom 4 lines to display the proper output?

if ($row['newsinbrief'] == NULL) 
{
	$news[] = $row['newstext'];
} 
else 
{
	$news[] = $row['newsinbrief'];
}

$author[] = $row['author'];
$profileid[] = $row['author_id']; 

include_once("../textilephp/Textile.php");
$text[] = $news;
$textile = new Textile;
$processednews[] = $textile->process($text);