title: Simple private messaging system. How to mark as read
body: <p>I'm building an app in Laravel, and using the eloquent ORM.</p>
  
  <p>i want to create a simple private messaging system within my application. Nothing mad complex. It will basicaly  be like email. It has a recepient, title, content and timestamps.</p>
  
  <p>I want the ability  to show if it's read/unread. Would having a column as a boolean called 'read' which has a default value of 0 work. When the user clicks on it, the read attirbute changes to 1, and the message is marked as read.</p>
  
  <p>How would I update the attribute, when the message is opened.</p>