Construct adjacency matrix in MATLAB

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Consider a set of points arranged on a grid of size N-by-M. I am trying to build the adjacency matrix such that neighboring points are connected.

For example, in a 3x3 grid with a graph:

1-2-3
| | |
4-5-6
| | |
7-8-9

We should have the corresponding adjacency matrix:

+---+------------------------------------------------------+
|   |   1     2     3     4     5     6     7     8     9  |
+---+------------------------------------------------------+
| 1 |   0     1     0     1     0     0     0     0     0  |
| 2 |   1     0     1     0     1     0     0     0     0  |
| 3 |   0     1     0     0     0     1     0     0     0  |
| 4 |   1     0     0     0     1     0     1     0     0  |
| 5 |   0     1     0     1     0     1     0     1     0  |
| 6 |   0     0     1     0     1     0     0     0     1  |
| 7 |   0     0     0     1     0     0     0     1     0  |
| 8 |   0     0     0     0     1     0     1     0     1  |
| 9 |   0     0     0     0     0     1     0     1     0  |
+---+------------------------------------------------------+

As a bonus, the solution should work for both 4- and 8-connected neighboring points, that is:

   o             o  o  o
o  X  o   vs.    o  X  o
   o             o  o  o

This the code that I have so far:

N = 3; M = 3;
adj = zeros(N*M);

for i=1:N
    for j=1:M
        k = sub2ind([N M],i,j);
        if i>1
            ii=i-1; jj=j;
            adj(k,sub2ind([N M],ii,jj)) = 1; 
        end
        if i<N
            ii=i+1; jj=j;
            adj(k,sub2ind([N M],ii,jj)) = 1; 
        end
        if j>1
            ii=i; jj=j-1;
            adj(k,sub2ind([N M],ii,jj)) = 1; 
        end
        if j<M
            ii=i; jj=j+1;
            adj(k,sub2ind([N M],ii,jj)) = 1; 
        end
    end
end

How can this improved to avoid all the looping?

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