How to create unique number for each box on order - php

Question

The issue is not how I am generating the number, that is working fine for a different app I have. The issue is counting the total number of boxes and iterating through a forloop that many times. Right now I am multiplying box_ct * qty_ord to get the total boxes. BTW, I am still trying to understand everything I can do with foreach and for loops, so if anyone has a better idea, Great.
CLARIFICATION: I am searching the database by order number and pulling back qty_ord, box_ct, and item_no for each. On some orders there is more than one item. So for each item I need to multiply qty_ord by box_ct = count and for that specific item I need to iterate through the loop based on what my count is.Right now if I remove the foreach and hardcode the for loop count variable it works fine. Any ideas on what is wrong with my foreach?
qty_ord | box_ct | item_no
------------------------
1 2 10001
3 3 10002
2 1 10003
2 3 10004
2 6 10005
Below is my code.
$sql ="SELECT imitmidx_sql.box_ct, oeordlin_sql.item_no, oeordlin_sql.qty_ord
FROM imitmidx_sql
JOIN oeordlin_sql ON oeordlin_sql.item_no = imitmidx_sql.item_no WHERE ord_no ='$orderNum'";
$query = odbc_exec($conn, $sql);
$row7 = odbc_fetch_array($query);
foreach($row7['item_no'] as $item){
$count = $row7['qty_ord'] * $row7['box_ct'];
for($counter = 0; $counter <= $count; $counter++){
//GRAB NUMBER FROM FILE
$sscc = file_get_contents("ucc128.txt");
//INCREMENT NUMBER
$sscc++;
//PUT THE NUMBER BACK IN FILE
$sscc = file_put_contents("ucc128.txt", $sscc);
//COMBINE STATIC NUMBER AND NUMBER FROM FILE
$ssccnumber = "00950000".$sscc;
//CREATE CHECK DIGIT MATH
$ssccnumArray = str_split((string)$ssccnumber);
$ssccstep1 = array_combine(range(1, count($ssccnumArray)), $ssccnumArray);
$ssccstep2 = 0;
$ssccstep4 = 0;
foreach($ssccnumArray as $k => $v){
if($k%2){
$ssccstep2 += (int)$v;
}else{
$ssccstep4 += (int)$v;
}
}
$ssccstep3 = (int)$ssccstep2 * 3;
$ssccstep5 = (int)$ssccstep3 + (int)$step4;
$ssccCheckDigit = (ceil($ssccstep5 / 10) * 10) - $ssccstep5;
//END CREATE CHECK DIGIT
//CONCATENATE FULL NUMBER
$sscc1 = $ssccnumber.$ssccCheckDigit;
$sql = "INSERT INTO ucc128 (sscc, ord_no) VALUES ('$sscc1' ,'$orderNum')";
#echo $sql.'<br />';
odbc_exec($connPRONUMBER, $sql);
}
}

Answer 1

I believe your issue may be with the following:
foreach($row7['item_no'] as $item){
$count = $row7['qty_ord'] * $row7['box_ct'];
//...
}
This should be:
foreach($row7['item_no'] as $item){
$count = $item['qty_ord'] * $item['box_ct'];
//...
}
You are grabbing data from the query results, as opposed to the current row.

Answer 2

My foreach was not working, so what I did instead was get the sum using my SQL query.
SELECT SUM(imitmidx_sql.box_ct * oeordlin_sql.qty_ord) AS total
FROM imitmidx_sql
JOIN oeordlin_sql ON oeordlin_sql.item_no = imitmidx_sql.item_no WHERE ord_no ='$orderNum'
I was then able to ouput it and save $row7['total'] to the variable $count.