Laravel php chat db storage?

Question

Laravel

To create chats between site users (personal, 1 on 1, so to speak), as far as I understand, this requires a separate table like chatrooms where id_1 id_2 users are stored, and another table with messages where in general all messages from all chats, chatroom_id, message, sender_id , something like this ..
Can you tell me if this is how it is done ??

Answer 1

chatrooms where id_1 id_2 are stored

why? If nothing is expected except 1 by 1, then everything can be stored in one table, from and to fields.

Answer 2

My solution, if you're interested: The architecture of the database tables for the Private Messages functionality, so logical?

Answer 3

You can also take a ready-made package and look at the code or modify it for yourself if necessary
https://github.com/cmgmyr/laravel-messenger