Multiple Categories and parent categories

$category = " get / post / result etc ";
$result = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".DB_TABLE." WHERE parentid='".$category."'");

   echo "News";
     $category = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".$db_prefix."nodeObject WHERE category=57");
     $result = dbquery("SELECT o.name name, o.image image, o.type type, o.link link, o.id id, o.date, o.category, c.id catid, c.name catname FROM ".$db_prefix."nodeObject o LEFT JOIN ".$db_prefix."nodeCategory c ON c.id=o.category WHERE c.parent='".$category."' ORDER BY date DESC LIMIT 20");
     $rows = dbcount("(id)", "".$db_prefix."nodeObject");
     if ($rows != 0) {
       echo "<div class='news'>";
         while ($data = dbarray($result)) { 
           echo "<div class='row'>";
           if ($data['image']) {
             $image = "<a href='node.php?cat_id=".$data['catid']."&amp;id=".$data['id']."'><img src='".INFUSIONS."node/uploads/".$data['image']."'></a>";
           }elseif ($data['link']) {
             $image = "<a href='node.php?cat_id=".$data['catid']."&amp;id=".$data['id']."'><img src='".parse_youtube_url($data['link'],'thumb')."' /></a>"; 
           } else {
             $image = "<a href='node.php?cat_id=".$data['catid']."&amp;id=".$data['id']."'><img src='".INFUSIONS."node/images/nophoto.jpg' /></a>"; 
           }
           echo $image;
           echo "<a class='gridtitle' href='node.php?cat_id=".$data['catid']."&amp;id=".$data['id']."'>".trimlink($data['name'],30)."</a>";
           echo "</div>";
         }
       echo "</div>";
     }

define("NODE", ".$db_prefix."nodeObject);
$result57 = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".NODE." where category='57');
$result58 = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".NODE." where category='58');
$result59 = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".NODE." where category='59');
$result60 = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".NODE." where category='60');
$result61 = dbquery("SELECT * FROM ".NODE." where category='61');

$data57 = dbarray($result57);
$data58 = dbarray($result58);
$data59 = dbarray($result59);
$data60 = dbarray($result60);
$data61 = dbarray($result61);