phpmyadmin + wrong lib version | web server optimization

[baxr6]

Hi all,

 

i have apache2triad version 1.5.4 installed and it works great...I decided then to upgrade phpmyadmin from the version 2.7pl2 it comes with to version 2.11.0.To do this i deleted all the files from the phpmyadmin folder and copied the new files across...i then updated the config file.(user and password).

 

I works fine but it has at the bottom the following error message.

 

Your PHP MySQL library version 5.0.11-beta differs from your MySQL server version 5.0.18. This may cause unpredictable behavior.

 

also what charset should i be creating database in....as a lot of the databases i have with online providers seem to be latin1 and im using utf....this seems to be causing some issues when i try to restore....

 

and my final question is about php and mysql itself....we have a dedicated server that displays screen shots for an online game....it seems to be laging the server when we have the web server running....are there any good guides and/or tutorials out there on optimizing your web server for this type of application...

 

Thanks