this is the first question I post in this site, so you have to excuse me if the title is not clear.
I have this situation: a php page that needs to process data taken from different api calls (facebook, youtube, lastfm). As expected, the page will take years to load and that's fine. So the question is.
Is possible to create a page that just takes the two basic data that I need to start the process - the facebook id and the token - then tell the user to wait, and server-side initiate the process, without leaving this annoying "loading page" open? I really have no idea how to trigger such a thing.
Thank you in advance.
Ps. I've already managed to optimize with fql multiple query for the facebook api and other tricks like that, but since the result of the call from one api leads to a specific call to another, it doesn't seem possible to me to get it fastwe. And, clearly, I've already been throught the facebook auth process for the user landing in this slow loading page.