Question

I would like to generate each dates (timestamp) that start now, on every monday, at a specific time, say 16h30, 17h00 and 14h00.

This code almost works, but the hour is the current one, instead of $hours[$i], and it’s also the current day of the week instead of the next monday

$hours = array('16h30', '17h00', '14h00');
for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++) {
    // how to specify the hour $hours[$i] ?
    $dates[] = strtotime("+$i weeks 0 days");
}

Desired output:

monday 5 november, 16h30
monday 12 november, 16h30
monday 19 november, 16h30
...

Answer 1

If you remove the ‘h’ from the times, PHP will understand them as-is, and you can just put the weekday name in the string.

$hours = array('1630', '1700', '1400');
for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++) {
    $dates[] = strtotime("monday +$i weeks $hours[$i]");
}

If you need the h for the rest of the code, you can remove it for just this purpose:

$hours = array('16h30', '17h00', '14h00');
for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++) {
    $dates[] = strtotime("monday +$i weeks " . 
                         join('', explode('h', $hours[$i])));
}