Had a quick dig around in the code and found the issue in it. Issue was a specific try,clause block which doesn't catch mysql errors, only PDO ones. I caught all exceptions and the installation went smooth as silk. Then went to GitHub to report the issue there and found the issue(and you too). The i...

Trying to install serendipity on XAMPP. Wouldn't install but returns an error trace. Tried with new empty databases several times but same problem (this here done with database named cfx): Fatal error: Uncaught mysqli_sql_exception: Table 'cfx.cfx_authors' doesn't exist in C:\xampp\htdocs\serendipit...