Move your download/output code into admin_init hook. This hook is called before anything is output. It should work.
<?php
/*
Plugin Name: Your Site's Functionality Plugin
Description: All of the important functionality of your site belongs in this.
Version: 0.1
License: GPL
Author: Your Name
Author URI: yoururl
*/
add_action('admin_menu', 'my_page_export_menu');
add_action('admin_init','wpse9876_download_csv');
function my_page_export_menu() {
add_submenu_page('edit-pages.php', __("Wordpress Export Pages to CSV", "my-page-export"), __("Export Page List", "my_page_export_menu"), 'edit_pages', __FILE__,'my_page_export_menu_options');
}
function wpse9876_download_csv(){
if ( isset($_POST['download_csv']) ) {
$text = wp_list_pages("echo=0&title_li=");
$html = preg_replace('/class=".*?"https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/", '', $text);
$html = strip_tags($html, '<ul>, <li>, <a>');
$html="<ul>".$html.'</ul>';
function get_depth(DOMElement $element)
{
$depth = -1;
while (
$element->parentNode->tagName === 'li' ||
$element->parentNode->tagName === 'ul'
) {
if ($element->parentNode->tagName === 'ul') {
$depth++;
}
$element = $element->parentNode;
}
return $depth;
}
$dom = new DOMDocument;
$dom->preserveWhiteSpace = false;
$dom->loadHTML($html);
echo '<pre>';
$fp = fopen("php://output", "w");
$file="test_export";
$filename = $file."_".date("Y-m-d_H-i",time());
header("Content-type: text/csv");
header("Content-disposition: csv" . date("Y-m-d") . ".csv");
header( "Content-disposition: filename=".$filename.".csv");
header("Pragma: no-cache");
header("Expires: 0");
foreach ($dom->getElementsByTagName('a') as $li) {
printf(
'%s%s%s',
str_repeat(',', get_depth($li)),
trim($li->childNodes->item(0)->nodeValue),
',,,,=HYPERLINK("'.$li->getAttribute( 'href' ).'")'.PHP_EOL
);
}
echo '</pre>';
exit;
}
}
function my_page_export_menu_options() {
echo '<div id="treecontrol" style="margin:20px 0;position:relative;">
<form method="post" id="download_form" action=""><input type="submit" name="download_csv" class="button-primary" value="Export" /></form>
</div>';
echo '<ul>';
wp_list_pages("&title_li=");
echo '</ul>';
}