Laravel User Authentication Scaffolding -> Saving data into two tables

I am relatively new to laravel and have a project that requires a bit of manual configuration.

Background:

• Working with Authentication Scaffolding (handles the user registration and login)
• I have two tables: Profile and Users.
• All Users have one Profile.
• But not all Profiles have a user.

Setup: Profile table => id, name, avatar, etc. User Table => profile_id, email, password

Since the Laravel Auth (Scaffold) handles the Registration and Login. I am trying to save data into the Profile table before saving the user table.

protected function create(array $data)
{

    $profile = Profile::create
    ([
        'slug' => $data['name'],
        'name' => $data['name'],
    ]);

    $user = User::create
    ([
        'profile_id' => $profile->id,
        'name' => $data['name'],
        'email' => $data['email'],
        'password' => bcrypt($data['password']),
    ]);

    return $user;
}

But this is not working. And the error message is telling me there is no profile_id assigned in the query.

What am I doing wrong?

via Chebli Mohamed