PHP and JSON for Reddit - php

Question

want to grab from a specific Reddit user some data.
There's a dynamic JSON file on the Reddit servers which can be accessed remotely.
The JSON file path is: http://www.reddit.com/user/tiagoperes/about.json
(where you can replace “tiagoperes” in the URL with whatever user you were trying to look up) - thank you Tom Chapin
Problem: I get the error message
http error 500: reddiant.com/reddit.php
Error Log:
PHP Warning:
file_get_contents(https://www.reddit.com/user/tiagoperes/about.json):
failed to open stream: HTTP request failed! HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden on
line 5
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'InvalidArgumentException'
with message 'Passed variable is not an array or object, using empty
array instead' on line 8
Code:
<?php
$url = "https://www.reddit.com/user/tiagoperes/about.json";
$json = file_get_contents($url);
$jsonIterator = new RecursiveIteratorIterator(
new RecursiveArrayIterator(json_decode($json, TRUE)),
RecursiveIteratorIterator::SELF_FIRST);
foreach ($jsonIterator as $key => $val) {
if(is_array($val)) {
echo "$key:\n";
} else {
echo "$key => $val\n";
}
}
(inspired in this: http://codepad.org/Gtk8DqJE)
Solution: Ask for debug.
What's the problem right here?
Can not find a way to make it work and should be quite straightforward.
Thank you!

Answer 1

Was getting some troubles in the first procedure, so decided to change the approach.
Got it to work like that:
<?php
$opts = array(
'http'=>array(
'method'=>"GET",
'header'=>"User-Agent: reddiant api script\r\n"
));
$context = stream_context_create($opts);
$url = "http://www.reddit.com/user/tiagoperes/about.json";
$json = file_get_contents($url, false, $context);
$result = json_decode($json, true);
// Result:
var_dump($result);
//echo data
echo $result['data']['name'];