Adding style to php output

Hello all, having a bit of trouble modifying the style of the output from a php.

I'm using Joomla CMS with a component called Mosets Tree.

Theres a module called Statistics that returns the number of links that i have in my directory.

I want to format the output but when I go look at the php code this is what i have:

<?php

/**
* Mosets Tree Stats
*
* @package Mambo Tree 1.5
* @copyright (C) 2005 Mosets Consulting
* @url http://www.Mosets.com/
* @author Lee Cher Yeong <mtree@mosets.com>
**/

defined( '_VALID_MOS' ) or die( 'Direct Access to this location is not allowed.' );

# Include the config file
require( $mosConfig_absolute_path.'/administrator/components/com_mtree/config.mtree.php' );

# Get params
$moduleclass = $params->get( 'moduleclass', '' );
$caption = $params->get( 'caption', 'There are %s listing and %s categories in our website' ); // Default is new listing

# Get totals
global $mosConfig_offset;
$now = date( "Y-m-d H:i:s", time()+$mosConfig_offset*60*60 );

$database->setQuery( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #__mt_links "
. "\n WHERE link_published='1' && link_approved='1' "
. "\n AND ( publish_up = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR publish_up <= '$now' ) "
. "\n AND ( publish_down = '0000-00-00 00:00:00' OR publish_down >= '$now' ) "
);

$total_links = $database->loadResult();

$database->setQuery( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #__mt_cats "
. "\n WHERE cat_published='1' && cat_approved='1' "
);

$total_cats = $database->loadResult();

echo sprintf($caption, $total_links, $total_cats);

The last line gives my output: echo sprintf($caption, $total_links, $total_cats);


How can i format this output from sprintf?

Thx in advance.

 

the quickes solution would be something lihe this:

$caption = $params->get( 'caption', '<p>There are <strong>%s</strong> listing and <strong>%s</strong> categories in our website</p>' ); // Default is new listing

PHP:

HTML tags provided above are just an example; use your own formatting model