External DB - error from __construct

You definitely shouldn't remove the parent::__construct() from your constructor, as this would break things. I'm guessing that the reason this error is coming up at this particular point is because you have 'database' listed in $autoload['libraries'] in your autoload config. The location of the error isn't the important part, anyway, it's the error message itself:

Unable to connect to database server using the specified settings.

The specified settings would be whatever default settings you have configured for your database.

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