Doesn't that code always end up returning the profile for the user with the id of 1? An example more in tune with Laravel would be like this I think:

class ProfileController extends BaseController {

  /**
   * @param $username
   *
   * @return \Illuminate\View\View
   */
  public function show($username)
  {

    //get user from db, if no result throw not found (404)
    $user = User::whereUsername($username)->with('profile')->first();

    if ($user->active)
    {

      // return the active user view
      return View::make('profile.user', compact('user'));

    } else
    {

      // return the inactive view
      return View::make('profile.inactive', compact('user'));

    }

  }

}

Yes, it does - I'm trying to make it dynamic, but keep getting errors.

Thanks for your help. However, I'm getting an error:

ErrorException (E_UNKNOWN) Undefined variable: profile

That's weird. It should work as long as you have a model named Profile and a relationship setup within the User model. Check out the eager loading part of the laravel docs:

http://laravel.com/docs/eloquent#eager-loading