Laravel Chat Message. Saving Image send in chat?

I am using Laravel 5.3 and developing an app for IOS developer. I have been working on a user-user chat. I have already designed the database and backend logic in laravel. Everything is working fine for now.

Now my client wants to send images and videos in chat as well. A chat/Messaging system like Facebook. I am using phpmyadmin (MySql). Current structure:

Question 1 Can anyone help me understand that Is it a good approach to save the image in database for chat purpose (keeping in mind that I am using phpmyadmin) or have to upload it in folder and save the link instead? If I have to save the path to image, then what will my database structure look like?

Question 2 Is there any chat tutorial availabe that save the image in database as well? Or gives the idea how to do that?

Thank you all in advance.

via Chebli Mohamed