[Plugin: Popularity Contest] How to show Category after link?

I found the line of code for <?php akpc_most_popular(); ?>, is on line 2220

The original code:

function akpc_most_popular($limit = 10, $before = ‘

• ‘, $after = ‘

‘, $report = false, $echo = true) {
global $akpc;
if(!$report) {
$akpc->show_top_ranked($limit, $before, $after);
}
else {
return $akpc->show_report($report, $limit);
}
}

I think this is what it need to look like, but i get an error.

function akpc_most_popular($limit = 10, $before = ‘

• ‘,$wpcategory ='<?php the_category(‘,’)?>’ $after = ‘

‘, $report = false, $echo = true) {
global $akpc;
if(!$report) {
$akpc->show_top_ranked($limit, $before, $wpcategory, $after);
}
else {
return $akpc->show_report($report, $limit);
}
}