Simple error checking with mysqli?

[webjay]

I'm using $mysqli->query all over the place without any sort of error checking or fall back if the query fails.What's the simplest/cleanest method I can use to catch these ? I'm thinking of a little function which can just display a friendly message and send me an email - I can write that but am not sure how to trigger/call it only when an error occurs? without adding heaps of if statements...i.e I wrap them all like:if($mysqli->query($query)) blah} else { error}That will really bloat my code...