Q:

Return a List of links in reddit using PHP

Just wondering if someone has sample code to return the top 25 links of reddit (using PHP).  In JSON or XML.  i can't wrap my head around the API... and rarely use python. 

A:

$array = (array) json_decode(file_get_contents("http://www.reddit.com/.json"));

That will return a PHP array with all the data from the front page.  You can limit how many you display using a simple while() loop. 
This is very simple now that you have the array from above, because all you have to do is step through it. 