MySQL - counting with HABTM relationships

I have 3 tables: 'cards', 'tags' and 'cardstags', where cards HABTM tags

Question: What query do I execute on the 'tags' table to count the number of associated 'cards' rows?

I'm looking for somet开发者_开发问答hing like this:

tags.name | count
----------+------
cricket   |  15          (15 cards are tagged as 'cricket')
soccer    |  23
football  |  12

select tags.name, count(*) from tags join cardstags 
 on tags.id=cardstags.tag_id group by tags.name

If you want only those tags that have at least one card:

select tags.name, count(cardstags.tag_id) from tags inner join cardstags on tags.id=cardstags.tag_id group by tags.id;

To include tags with no cards, use a left join instead of an inner join.