How can the base href attribute in HTML affect the process of converting internal URLs to external URLs in PHP?

When using the base href attribute in HTML, it can affect the process of converting internal URLs to external URLs in PHP by changing the base URL that all relative URLs are resolved against. To account for this, you can use the parse_url function in PHP to extract the base URL from the base href attribute and prepend it to internal URLs before converting them to external URLs. 

<?php
// Get the base URL from the base href attribute in the HTML
$html = '<base href="https://www.example.com">';
preg_match('/<base href="(.*?)"/', $html, $matches);
$baseUrl = $matches[1];

// Internal URL to be converted to external URL
$internalUrl = '/path/to/page';

// Prepend the base URL to the internal URL
$externalUrl = $baseUrl . $internalUrl;

echo $externalUrl; // Output: https://www.example.com/path/to/page
?>

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