Esattamente!!
ho scritto una cosa del genere e pare che funziona...
codice:
SELECT
`articles`.`id` AS id,
`articles`.`title` AS title,
`articles`.`abstract` AS abstract,
`articles`.`data_publication` AS data_publication,
`articles`.`city_id` AS city_id,
`articles`.`gallery_id` AS gallery_id,
`articles`.`user_id` AS user_id,
`articles`.`image` AS image,
`users`.`id` AS user_id,
`users`.`firstname` AS firstname,
`users`.`lastname` AS lastname,
(
SELECT COUNT(comment.id)
FROM
comment
WHERE
comment.article_id = articles.id
AND
comment.status = 1
) AS count_comments
FROM (`articles`)
JOIN `users` ON `users`.`id` = `articles`.`user_id`
ORDER BY `articles`.`id` DESC
LIMIT 32
potrebbe andar bene secondo voi??