So I tried a fresh reinstall of the OS on the machine and just went through the process of installing MySQL, phpmyadmin, and php5 on Ubuntu through Putty. After going through the install, following each step word for word. I logged into phpmyadmin and got this notification on the bottom.
I know I installed php5 as well as mcrypt because I put this in the console when the step came and it said the installation was successful.
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sudo apt-get install php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mcrypt