Database Design for storing Chat Messages between people

Question

I am trying to build a messaging/chat system. which can store conversation between two people in a chronological order. Also if User A deletes the conversation User B still shou

Answer 1

I would use a lookup table for the messages that would store who has the rights to view that message

table->message                   |    table->messageUsers
id->0, message->'hi', user_id->1      user_id->1, message_id->0
                                      user_id->2, message_id->0

That way if a user deletes their message they are actually just deleting their relationship to the message not the message itself. you just remove them from the messageUsers table. or set a active field to 1 or 0.